Destinations and Directions to Two Worlds: A Review of Moisés Park’s Y el verso cae al aula
byAt first glance, the most noticeable thing about Y el verso cae al aula (And the verse falls into the classroom) is a picture…
Reviews
The Language of Women
byI have in front of me two collections which should shake the foundations of what a person thinks they know about conception, child loss,…
Digging for Truth: A Review of Ray Ball’s Lararium and Marilyn McCabe’s Being Many Seeds
byLararium by Ray Ball. Variant Literature, 2020. 38 pages. $10. Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe. Grayson Books, 2020. 20 pages. $12. All archaeology…
Touched: A Review of Caw by Michael Waters
byA critique leveled at the late Alan Dugan was that his poetry, although consistent across collections, was at times too predictable and never left…
Volatile Voices: A Review of Erik Fuhrer’s Not Human Enough for the Census
byTo read a book of poems about disaster in the middle of several simultaneous disasters is both an escape and a two-sided mirror. When…
Crossings: A Review of On This Side of the Desert
byFor anyone who grew up along the U.S.-Mexican border, life was no doubt unique. The border from California to Texas is by no means…
Strange Countries
byIf poetry is the news that stays news, its daily headlines concern how the strange stays strange: the strangeness of countries, the strangeness of…
The Nature of Trauma: A Review of Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron
byAward-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott’s first book to be published in the United States, The Rain Heron, out this month from Farrar, Strauss and…
Poetics of the Threshold: A Review of Hinge by Molly Spencer
by“For some…the liminal becomes their only dwelling place—becomes home”[1] Jane Hirshfield Perhaps it’s because I’ve recently crossed into midlife, the space between…
Spinning Hope Out of Darkness: A Review of Britton Shurley’s Spinning the Vast Fantastic
byAs society faces civil unrest and what feels like a never-ending pandemic, Spinning the Vast Fantastic, Britton Shurley’s debut chapbook, finds hope in images…