by Edward Sambrano III | May 23, 2020
My Second Work by Bridget Lowe Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020 To read a Bridget Lowe poem is to observe a gradual transformation, a transmutation of the ordinary into progressively more extraordinary metaphysical states. Anyone who read Lowe’s first book At...
by Rebecca Valley | May 18, 2020
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall Copper Canyon Press, 2020 “And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land of Nod. – Genesis 4:16” (35) In her latest collection, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Traci...
by Katie Heacock | May 7, 2020
Great American Desert By Terese Svoboda Ohio State Press, 2019 Terese Svoboda opens her 18th book Great American Desert with an epigraph that reminds readers that many of the greatest civilizations are now desert wastelands–and that the West...
by Margaret Pearcy Fleming | Apr 6, 2020
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered by Jeffrey Levine Salmon Poetry, 2019 And all that night, throughout the world, a terrible noise of sheep / bleating and of bells from the church towers, of wooden houses cracking, / and the cries of...
by Amanda Auerbach | Mar 9, 2020
All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser Two Sylvias Press, 2019. Dana Roeser’s All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts is a book of long, narrow poems that move lightly and deftly from one strand of experience to another, in the...
by Matt Geiger | Feb 6, 2020
Word Has It by Ruth Danon Nirala Publications, 2018 On the subject of serial killers, poet Ruth Danon writes that they “leave notes, write in code.” They “grow increasingly impatient.” “They hate the dark,” she muses. “They want to be found.” So...
