Tag Archives: Charlotte Mandel

The American Long Poem Goes West: Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend

Posted in August 22, 2015
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Charlotte Mandel I want to focus attention upon critical slighting of an American epic force in the poetry of Thomas McGrath, a self-styled political revolutionary born in rural North Dakota (b. 1916, d. 1990). McGrath’s 400-page long poem, Letter to …

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Review: Through A Garden Gate by Charlotte Mandel (poems) and Vincent Covello (photographs)

Posted in April 6, 2015
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Sander Zulauf Through A Garden Gate Poems by Charlotte Mandel Photographs by Vincent Covello Cincinnati, OH:  David Robert Books, 2015 Paper. 60pp. $20.00. ISBN:  978-1-625491-213 www.davidrobertbooks.com After this bitter cold, relentless, dangerous winter of 2015, what better to cheer the …

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Review: Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 by Chana Bloch

Posted in April 6, 2015
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Charlotte Mandel Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015 Chana Bloch Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015 Paper, 221 pp, $19.95 ISBN 978-1-938769-00-9 http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/swimming-in-the-rain-new-and-selected-poems-1980-2015-by-chana-bloch/ Chana Bloch’s new collection, titled Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems 1980-2015, …

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