The course of a knot—its overs, unders, and throughs—determine its holding strength. There are hundreds, some with a single strand of rope or twine, some binding two or more strands. Some have names describing their function (Lobster Buoy hitch), origin …
Tag Archives: Spring 2015
Forming Functional Friction
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Leslie L. Nielsen, letter from editor, Spring 2015
Going Inside the Cave: Where the Personal and Political Intersect in Contemporary Narrative American Poetry
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, essay, Spring 2015
Brian Fanelli In his essay “A Defence of Poetry,” Percy Shelley declares that poets should be “the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke takes a more confessional stance, stating that to write …
Children of a Difficult Labor
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Bruce Bond, essay, Spring 2015
Bruce Bond There is no birth of consciousness without pain. —Carl Jung You must revise your life. —Rainer Maria Rilke When I first read Jung, I was 23, fresh out of my …
Review: Frozen Latitudes by Therése Halscheid
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Ann E. Michael, review, Spring 2015, Therése Halscheid
Ann E. Michael, PQ Contributing Editor Frozen Latitudes Therése Halscheid Press 53, 2014 Paperback, 75 pp. $14.95 ISBN 978-1-941209-12-7 www.measurepress.com Therése Halscheid’s latest collection begins with the cold: “icy flakes” and “sentence after sentence moving words/over the winter earth.” She …
Review: Habeas Corpus by Cindy Hochman
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Arthur McMaster, Cindy Hochman, review, Spring 2015
Arthur McMaster, PQ Contributing Editor Habeas Corpus by Cindy Hochman Glass Lyre Press Paper, 2015, 27 pages ISBN: 978-1-941783-02-3 http://www.glasslyrepress.com/catalogue.html Cindy Hochman knows what makes a memorable poem—fresh use of language and captivating imagery, of course, but equally so “that …
Review: Lillie was a goddess, Lillie was a whore by Penelope Scambly Schott
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Penelope Scambly Schott, review, Spring 2015, Therése Halscheid
Therése Halscheid Lillie was a goddess, Lillie was a whore Penelope Scambly Schott Mayapple Press, 2013 Perfect bound, 85 pages ISBN: 978-1-936419-25-8 Purchase: Mayapple Press From a prone prostitute to a flower of purity—Penelope Scambly Schott examines all manner of …
“Tree by Charity”: Robert Frost and the American Christmas
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Adam Bryant Marshall, essay, Spring 2015
Adam Bryant Marshall At the end of his book Christmas in America, historian Penne L. Restad concludes that, despite the sense that “profanation, secularization, commercialization, and prevalence throughout American life have delustered it…Christmas remains the most important holiday on our …
Review: Naked by Donnelle McGee
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Donnelle McGee, review, Spring 2015
Brian Fanelli, PQ Contributing Editor Naked Donnelle McGee Unbound Content Paperback, 110 pages ISBN-13: 978-1936373437 http://unboundcontent.com/naked-by-donnelle-mcgee/ In his manifesto “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes defines blues and jazz as a “revolt against weariness in a white …
Review: Things That Keep Us from Drifting by Andrew Ruzkowski
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Andrew Ruzkowski, Ann E. Michael, review, Spring 2015
Ann E. Michael, PQ Contributing Editor Things That Keep Us from Drifting Andrew Ruzkowski Another New Calligraphy, 2014 88 pp., large format paperback, $18.00 www.anothernewcalligraphy.com In his writings, John Dewey mentions the phenomenon he calls “drift,” when social forces lose …
Review: Divining the Prime Meridian by Carol Smallwood
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Carol Smallwood, Nancy Means Wright, review, Spring 2015
Nancy Means Wright Divining the Prime Meridian Carol Smallwood Word Poetry, 2015 Trade paper, 118 pages 978-1-62549-111-4 http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/smallwood.html Poet Carol Smallwood knows how to tell the truth slant, as Emily Dickinson advised, with double meanings, like the prime meridian in …