Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Warsan Shire flipped eye publishing Perfect bound, 38 pgs ISBN-10: 1905233299 Purchase link Reviewed by Kelly M. Sylvester The very title, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, ought to prepare readers …
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Posted in October 10, 2013
Gold by Barbara Crooker
Posted in October 10, 2013
Gold Barbara Crooker Cascade Books Perfect bound, 69 pgs ISBN: 978-1-62032-940-5 https://wipfandstock.com/store/Gold Reviewed by Dawn Leas From the cover’s buttery suede texture and gorgeous art (Gustav Klimt’s The Three Ages of Women, 1905) to the vivid imagery and poignant themes …
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
Posted in October 10, 2013
Black Aperture Matt Rasmussen LSU Press, 2013 Perfect bound, 64 pgs ISBN: 978-0-8071-5086-3 Purchase link Reviewed by Arthur McMaster Matt Rasmussen’s superb volume of poems won the prestigious Walt Whitman Award in 2012. No doubt he had some worthy competition, …
Clangings by Steven Cramer
Posted in October 10, 2013
Clangings Steven Cramer Sarabande Books Perfect bound, 65 pgs ISBN 978-I-936747-46-7 www.sarabandebooks.org Reviewed by Lisa C. Krueger Language, it could be argued, is the conduit to reality. Without this form of communication – to others, to ourselves- what might prove …
Aux Arcs by Shin Yu Pai
Posted in October 10, 2013
Aux Arcs Shin Yu Pai La Alameda Press Perfect Bound, 112 pgs ISBN: 978-1-888809-67-1 Purchase link Reviewed by Gerry McFarland Aux Arcs, Shin Yu Pai’s newest collection of poetry, reveals human experience in all its complexity, and in forms …
After the Bell by John L. Stanizzi
Posted in October 10, 2013
After the Bell John L. Stanizzi Big Table Publishing Perfect bound, 68 pgs ISBN: 9780988619104 www.bigtablepublishing.com Reviewed by Brian Fanelli In a time when dozens of states are slashing teachers’ pensions and defunding public education, John L. Stanizzi’s latest collection …
Afloat by John Reibetanz
Posted in October 10, 2013
Afloat John Reibetanz Brick Books, 2013 Perfect bound, 87 pgs ISBN: 1926829824 http://www.brickbooks.ca/ Reviewed by John McCarthy When it comes to John Reibetanz’s Afloat, you will never have a better experience while drowning. The poems are a torrent of sublime …