by Lauren Hilger | Mar 28, 2013
And onto the meadow Where the tall grass bends like the backs Of women working in a field....
by Scott Henkle | Mar 19, 2013
GMR’s Slow Burn series looks back at titles that continue to smolder, still, beneath the embers of last year or even the year before. –The Editors It’s hard to miss how the story of Robert Walser’s death—in the snow, hat thrown off, alone on...
by Marcus Pactor | Mar 11, 2013
In Allen Learst’s collection, Dancing at the Gold Monkey, a group of Vietnam veterans struggle with the question of what comes next. The question already suggests the impossibility of either healing or forgetting. “Next” only comes in relation to what came before,...
by Kay Cosgrove | Mar 5, 2013
Amy Newman’s latest collection, Dear Editor (Persea Books, 2011), is as funny as it is poignant. Told in three ‘seasons’ of prose poems, almost every poem begins “Dear Editor: Please consider the enclosed poems for publication.” We never get to read the poems...
by Erik Campbell | Feb 27, 2013
GMR’s “Slow Burn” review series looks back at titles that continue to smolder, still, beneath the embers of last year or even the year before. A fundamental paradox of the contemporary poetry collection is that poets, unlike novelists, obtain their...
by Luke Goebel | Feb 20, 2013
This is my first book review I have been contracted to write. I am in an airport in Dallas, Texas, swimming in a sea of mind, which Noy Holland has released within my head and corporal self. Being in a Noy Holland story, let alone amidst her new collection, is...
