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Michael Collier's Collection Falls Flatnew
It's difficult to say why exactly Maryland's former poet laureate felt the need to publish Make Us Wave Back: Essays on Poetry and Influence, but the end result reads like a dumping ground for academic studies, all-too-brief personal essays, lengthy reportage, and even an interview.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
10-16-2007 |
Poetry
Miss Cleo, This Time for Realnew
The album's eight tracks find Mis Cleo in a far different mood than America might anticipate. She's left the tarot cards and psychic-speak behind in favor of straight-to-the-gut protest poetry, as fierce and passionate as anything released by June Jordan or Nikki Giovanni.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
10-02-2007 |
Poetry
'The Book of Ocean': An Odyssey of Imaginationnew
Larkin's first book is a prism of paradox, a poetry aware of its own disguise.
Dorn Has an Unique and Complex Vision of Americanew
Too much poetry focuses on the beautiful, the lyrical, the sublime moments of our lives -- though you'll find all this in Edward Dorn, you'll just as often find political invective, sharp satire and a critical wit.
'Vermeer's Light': Sound Often Dominates Over Sensenew
Bowering, the first Canadian poet laureate, delights in language and in word-play.
A Quartet of Poetsnew
Everyday takes a cool turn in new works by Nathaniel G. Moore, Shane Rhodes, Emily Schultz, and Rachel Zolf.
The Georgia Straight |
Jacqueline Turner |
05-18-2007 |
Poetry
Tags: Poetry Reviews
Heat and Dustnew
Michael Chitwood's poetry of Southern realism and universal mortality.
'A Building With Eyes'new
DaZE's most insistent concern is its days: the daily news, the daily grind, the details of war and weird science that enter our lives on a daily basis.
Tags: DaZE, Matthew Cooperman
Between Despair and Possibilitynew
Byrne puts into dialogue the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- as experienced through the mediation of headlines and news stories.
Tags: An Educated Heart, Mairead Byrne
The Populist Poetnew
Pomerhn's third book is a guided tour through the crumbling American mindscape.
Neither Prescriptive nor Naivenew
Cairns crafts poems of faith in an age when readers are liable to greet the subject with cynicism.
Tags: Compass of Affection, Scott Cairns
Reasserting the Power of Creeley's Versenew
Why has a poet with such depth of feeling, technical virtuosity and an oft-imitated style elicited such a critical backlash? Most of it has nothing to do with the work itself.
Sympathetic Versesnew
Sapphire proves political poetry doesn't have to be doctrinaire, one-sided and humorless.
Seven Days |
Margot Harrison |
08-23-2006 |
Poetry
Naturally Giftednew
As in the fragments of Heraclitus, these poems create a kind of economy of the elements.
Seven Days |
John Freeman |
07-28-2006 |
Poetry
A Swell of New Versenew
Each sample in this book has enough immediate appeal to entice and soothe skittish newbs and enough canonical footing to make it OK for seasoned masochistic enthusiasts.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
06-14-2006 |
Poetry
Tags: Various, Wave Books
