by Peter B. Hyland | May 10, 2014
The poetry of David Lehman probably shouldn’t be as good as it is. Some of its features could lead a hurried, presumptuous reader to classify the poems as the secretions of a stodgy intellectual. There are allusions to works in the Western canon aplenty....
by Peter B. Hyland | May 2, 2014
Up until the age of say fifteen, I would undergo a very particular sensation whenever I received a haircut. As the hairdresser ran her hands over my scalp, or as some part of her brushed up against my ear to position herself for the next trimming...
by Gina Keicher | Apr 23, 2014
Sasha West has chosen an unlikely, yet intriguing, travel companion in her poetry collection, Failure and I Bury the Body from Harper Perennial. Selected by D. Nurske as a winner of the 2012 National Poetry Series, West’s collection details a speaker’s...
by Will Donnelly | Apr 8, 2014
In October 2002, David Stuart MacLean found himself in a train station in Hyderabad, India without knowing how he’d gotten there. He didn’t recognize his surroundings, and even more frightening, he didn’t recognize himself. A police officer tapped him on the...
by Lauren Hilger | Mar 28, 2014
Emilia Phillips’s first collection of poems, Signaletics, masterfully builds an atmosphere like that of an ancient laboratory where the tools are out and books still open. She references texts such as Al-Jazari’s medieval Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious...
by Lauren Hilger | Mar 20, 2014
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, the fifth full-length collection from Jeffrey McDaniel, takes its title from a Marina Tsvetaeva line: “I shall lead you, as a guest form another country, / to the Chapel of Inadvertent Joy.” Like Tsetaeva, McDaniel connects to the...
