Yearly Archives: 2009

Used White Wife by Sandra Simonds

Posted in October 1, 2009

Review by Valerie Wetlaufer   Used White Wife  By Sandra SimondsGrey Book PressStaple-Bound Chapbook, 23 pages Sandra Simonds is a wry and inventive poet, telling us in the first line of this chapbook, “It is absolutely unnecessary to write serious …

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Aphrodite’s Daughter by Becky Gould Gibson

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Reviewed by Jessie Carty Aphrodite’s DaughterBy Becky Gould GibsonTexas Review PressISBN: 9781933896106Perfect Bound, 80 pagesLink to purchase Aphrodite’s Daughter, winner of the 2006 XJ Kennedy Poetry Prize, is a feminist study expressed in 38 poems. Gibson predominantly uses themes surrounding …

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Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems For You by Diana M. Raab

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Review by Lori A. May   Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems For You By Diana M. RaabPlain View PressPerfect Bound, 96 pagesISBN: 978-1-891386-41-1Link to purchase Most poets will all too happily speak of influential voices, mentors, and inspirational books. …

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Back of the Envelope by Greg McBride

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Reviewed by Anne Harding Woodworth Back of the Envelope By Greg McBrideSoutheast Missouri State University PressA Copperdome ChapbookISBN: 978-0-9798714-98Link to purchase Back of the Envelope is a chapbook of 24 poems that fold a man’s life into itself. From childhood …

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At night, the dead by Lisa Ciccarello

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Reviewed by Jill Crammond Wickham At night, the deadBy Lisa CiccarelloBlood Pudding PressChapbookLink to purchase “You lock the door. You lock the window. You dream of the dead.” Most of us fear the dead. We fear their reach from beyond, …

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the dream and the dream you spoke by Maureen Alsop

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Review by Christina Cook   the dream and the dream you spoke By Maureen AlsopinSPIREd Poetry Series, Spire Press, Inc.29 pagesISBN:978-1-934828-03-8 Link to purchase Maureen Alsop’s latest collection of poems, the dream and the dream you spoke, rides the razor’s …

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Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics

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Review by Carol Dorf   Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics Edited by Sarah Glaz & JoAnne GrowneyAK Peters, Ltd.Perfect Bound, 250 pagesISBN: 978-1568813417Link to purchase When I joined the River of Words readers to read poetry at the …

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Rooms and Their Airs by Jody Gladding

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Review by Lauren Rusk Rooms and Their Airs By Jody GladdingMilkweedPerfect Bound, 80 pagesISBN: 978-1-57131-432-1 Link to purchase Entering Jody Gladding’s exquisite small poems, I feel space open up and take a fuller breath than I have for a while. …

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Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields by Ashley Capps

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Review by Tasha Cotter   Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields By Ashley CappsThe University of Akron PressPerfect Bound, 69 pagesISBN: 978-1-931968-37-9Link to purchase Ashley Capps’s first book of poetry, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, opens with “Hymn for …

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Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito

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Review by Valerie Wetlaufer Taste of Cherry By Kara CanditoUniversity of Nebraska PressPerfect Bound, 68 pagesISBN: 978-0-803225-23-7 Link to purchase Reading Kara Candito’s book Taste of Cherry is like being slapped in the face and asking for more. From poems …

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