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Stephanie Bolster: A Page From the Wonders of Life on Earth
In Bolster's fourth collection, she attempts the difficult task of writing "travel poems" starting from generally well-known locations in Europe.
Dec 17, 2011, 08:48
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Gabe Foreman: A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
This is one of the stranger books of poems I have encountered in a while. In form it is precisely what its title says it is: an alphabetically arranged compendium of various sorts of persons, from adulterers to zookeepers, with cross-references no less (e.g. “For Detectives See Suspects”).
Dec 14, 2011, 19:15
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Bruce Taylor: No End in Strangeness: New and Selected Poems.
These are the contents of middle age, one might be forgiven for thinking (Taylor turned 50 last year). Indeed he has a poem on that very subject, in which he wonders whether, having climbed a slide the wrong way up, avoiding the stairs, it is better to swoosh back to the ground all at once or to walk down slowly.
Sep 20, 2011, 10:50
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Jack Hannan: Some Frames
Armed with the knowledge that this volume is a collection of older work from 1978 to1984 and new work beginning again from around 2005, I brought to my reading a specific curiosity about the intervening 20 years when Hannan did not write poetry.
Sep 20, 2011, 10:50
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Gillian Sze: The Anatomy of Clay
There is little doubt that Sze is a poet of considerable talent. She is precise with her word choices, and knows when to end a poem before it morphs into sentimentality or overstatement.
Sep 20, 2011, 09:50
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Yassaman Ameri: Exile on Marginal Road
Exile is what is not there but should be and exile is what is but shouldn’t be. Repressive regimes know this only too well, and use it to silence dissidents.
Sep 19, 2011, 16:11
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Susan Briscoe: The Crow's Vow
I'm never sure what to make of post-epithalamion writing, whether it involves the rampant versification of domestic disturbances or perhaps even more troubling, successive scenes from crumbling togetherness.
Jul 1, 2011, 12:27
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Richard Sommer: Cancer Songs
The poems are unflinching reality bites from a generous heart, and rise above catharsis or bleak journaling by their intrinsic good cheer and good will, no matter what. We can all can find ourselves in Richard Sommer’s journey, and whatever our state of wellness, see farther and deeper by the light his poem lanterns cast.
Jun 29, 2011, 21:31
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Antonine Maillet: La Sagouine
Another Golden Oldie.It’s about home and roots even if that home is a scraggly piece of land that barely supports its inhabitants. It’s about home and roots even more so if one is uprooted, exiled and shipped to somewhere else.
Mar 27, 2011, 09:07
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John Gray: Billy Bishop Goes to War
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Feb 18, 2011, 15:00
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