by David Z. Drees | Mar 29, 2016
A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns: Stories by Tom Paine Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Published in 2015 by Louisiana State University Press, Tom Paine’s third book, A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns: Stories, is a collection of nine short stories, each...
by Sarah Malone | Feb 10, 2016
A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, Belinda McKeon, ed. Tramp Press. 2015. Juxtaposition performs a sleight of hand. Presented with a collection of stories I might find the arrangement conducive to comparing them or I might not, but the possibility of not seeing...
by Ellen O'Connell | Feb 2, 2016
Bird by Noy Holland Counterpoint Press. 2015. At their best, books are not just books but experiences that summon us back into a distant memory of ourselves and our parents. Noy Holland has accomplished this with Bird, released in November by Counterpoint Press....
by Matthew Lippman | Jun 20, 2015
Ascent by Matt Bialer Bizarro Pulp Press. 2014. Sometimes you have to start at the beginning. To move up. To get lifted. To ascend. At the end of Matt Bialer’s epic poem, Ascent, there is a wedding, a Jewish wedding, the bride and groom lifted in chairs, the ancient...
by Mary Biddinger | Jun 1, 2015
The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems by Olena Kalytiak Davis Copper Canyon Press. 2014. 110 pages When a new poetry collection by Olena Kalytiak Davis drops, we expect a revolution. The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems is no exception. In fact, this may be...
by J.G. McClure | May 20, 2015
Thought That Nature by Trey Moody Sarabande Books, 2014 Trey Moody’s Thought That Nature, winner of the 2012 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry (selected by Cole Swensen), shows a poet moved deeply by the mysterious relationship between Self and world. Take the...
