Manash Bhattacharjee Breton dreamt of people making perfect love in glasshouses. He meant glasshouses literally. But Nadja was not the glasshouse of mad love. Nadja was mad. Breton – the timid hero of madness – fled Nadja before tasting the …
Tag Archives: Summer 2015
Baudelaire, Breton, and the Madness of Love
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: essay, Manash Bhattacharjee, Summer 2015
CantoMundo Poets Head to Bread Loaf
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: interview, Millicent Borges Accardi, Summer 2015
Millicent Bórges Accardi Founded in 1926, the famed Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference boasts an amazing literary and intellectual tradition, each summer, gathering together both emerging and seasoned writers, working closely together with a diverse and talented faculty. There are small-group …
Poems in a Box—An Interview with Poet Adele Kenny
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Diane Lockward, interview, Summer 2015
Diane Lockward Adele Kenny is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All and What Matters which received the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published in such journals as …
Review: Waving Back by Gail Thomas
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Gail Thomas, review, Steven Riel, Summer 2015, Turning Point Books
Steven Riel Waving Back Gail Thomas Turning Point Paperback, 87 pages ISBN 9781625491251 http://turningpointbooks.com/gail-thomas.html Waving Back, Gail Thomas’ third book of poetry, impresses us with the achievements of a mature and adept craftsperson. In addition to admiring Thomas’ artistry, we …
Seeing The Belle of Amherst
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Carol Smallwood, essay, Summer 2015
Carol Smallwood It was my good fortune recently to view The Belle of Amherst, the Tony award-winning monologue on Emily Dickinson performed by Julie Harris. Dickinson’s poem about death kindly stopping for her gave me resolve to tackle writing about …
The American Long Poem Goes West: Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Charlotte Mandel, essay, Summer 2015
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 …
Review: Via Incanto: Poems from the Darkroom by Marisa Frasca
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Bordighera Press, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Marisa Frasca, review, Summer 2015
Elizabeth Kate Switaj Via Incanto–Poems from the Darkroom Marisa Frasca Bordighera Press Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 978-1-59954-076-4 http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781599540764/via-incanto-poems-from-the-darkroom.aspx A dark room, as any gothic heroine will tell you, …
Review: Scienza Nuova by Carrie Hunter
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Carrie Hunter, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Little Red Leaves Textile Series, review, Summer 2015
Elizabeth Kate Switaj Scienza Nuova Carrie Hunter little red leaves textile edition, 2014 Stitched Cloth Cover, 20 pages http://www.textileseries.com/shop/scienza-nuova-by-carrie-hunter When I read Carrie Hunter’s Scienza Nuova, I feel as though I am hearing the voice of the little girl from …
Review: Hominid Up by Neil Shepard
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Neil Shepard, review, Salmon Poetry, Summer 2015
Brian Fanelli Hominid Up Neil Shepard Salmon Poetry Paperback, 86 pages ISBN: 978-1-908836-95-3 http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=350&a=266 In some ways, Neil Shepard’s sixth book of poems, Hominid Up, feels representative of his body of work to date, in that the book contains a …
Review: Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Rebecca Foust, review, Summer 2015, Vicki Hudson, Winston-Salem: Press 53
Vicki Hudson Paradise Drive Rebecca Foust Winston-Salem: Press 53 Softbound, 114 pp 978-1-941209-16-5 http://www.press53.com/Award_for_Poetry.html The titular poem in Rebecca Foust’s Paradise Drive richly envelopes the reader’s senses, beginning the submersion into Foust’s exquisite collection of sonnets. “Roses blooming straight through …