She Returns to the Floating Worldby Jeannine Hall GaileyKitsune Books, 2011ISBN: 978-0-9827409-2-7 Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Ann E. Michael When a writer chooses to call upon myth and folktales in her work, readers generally feel comfortable—most readers …
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She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Posted in January 3, 2013
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Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust
Posted in January 3, 2013
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Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the HolocaustPaintings by Lori Schreiner, Poems by Theresa Senato EdwardsUnbound ContentPaperback, 58 pagesISBN: 9781936373277Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli Too often, history is reduced to names and dates in textbooks, or …
A (short) history of l. by rob mclennan
Posted in January 3, 2013
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A (short) history of l.by rob mclennanBuschekBooksPerfect Bound, 95 pagesISBN: 978-1-894543-69-9Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Elizabeth Kate Switaj T.S. Eliot’s observation that “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood” has become something of a critical cliché. Nonetheless, …
A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers
Posted in April 1, 2012
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Review by Jessie Carty A Brief History of TimeBy Shaindel BeersSalt PublishingISBN 978-1-84471-505-3Perfect Bound, 65 pagesLink to purchase Shaindel Beers’ first collection, A Brief History of Time, opens with the title poem, which is an ars poetica. Beers writes, “I’ve …
Two Tales of One Tragedy: Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler, Katie Cappello’s Perpetual Care, and the Catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina
Posted in January 1, 2010
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Review by Karen J. Weyant Blood Dazzlerby Patricia SmithCoffee House PressPerfect Bound 90 pagesISBN 978-1-56689-218-6Link to Purchase Perpetual Careby Katie CappelloElixirPerfect Bound 88 pagesISBN 978-1932418323Link to Purchase Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, flooding the city …
Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli
Posted in October 1, 2009
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Review by Lori A. May Then, Something By Patricia FargnoliTupelo PressPerfect Bound, 84 pagesISBN: 978-1-932195-79-8 Link to purchase As the cover suggests, Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli offers a contradiction, or juxtaposition, of things that are and things that …
Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …
Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields by Ashley Capps
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …
Rooms and Their Airs by Jody Gladding
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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. …
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …