Joshua Michael Stewart’s Break Every String, Reviewed by Ace Boggess
Joshua Michael Stewart Break Every String Hedgerow Books of Levellers Press ISBN: 978-1-937146-92-4 Reviewer: Ace Boggess A proper review of Joshua Michael Stewart’s book of poems, Break Every String, should begin not with the poems but with the book itself. The volume is visually stunning, its cover art by Bret Herholz depicting a shadowy […]
Gloria Mindock’s Whiteness of Bone, Reviewed by Lynn Levin
Gloria Mindock Whiteness of Bone Glass Lyre Press ISBN: 978-1-941783-19-1 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Political poetry is necessary poetry, but it is also one of the most difficult types of poetry to write. The moral imperative that drives poems of outrage against man’s inhumanity to man often leads to work that explodes with fury and […]
Amy MacLennan’s The Body, a Tree, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Amy MacLennan The Body, A Tree MoonPath Press ISBN: 978-1-936657-22-3 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman For any reader who is at all spiritually inclined, the title The Body, A Tree, along with the ethereal artwork on the lovely cover, immediately summons the figure of the Bodhi tree, under which the Buddha found enlightenment. The sturdy branches […]
George Drew’s Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
George Drew Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems Texas Review Press ISBN: 978-1-680030792 Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor The opening poem in this collection, “The Drowning of Christopher French,” probably written in the mid-1980s, competes fiercely for the honor of best poem in the book. It sets the tone for the entire collection, and, as […]
