Introduction to Pedestal 84
Introduction to Pedestal 84 Editing Pedestal is an aesthetic adventure, particularly when several editors are reading, conferring, agreeing, disagreeing, leaping, and, in some cases, inching toward consensus regarding specific poems and an issue in its entirety. Re Pedestal 84: the three of us received and read over 6500 poems, reaching enthusiastic agreement on the fourteen […]
John Fry’s with the dogstar as my witness, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
John Fry with the dogstar as my witness Orison Books Reviewer: Cindy Hochman The seeming contradiction of religion is that it often perpetuates the very problems it is asked to resolve, especially for someone who wants to believe but whose fundamental values are antithetical to its core tenets. It is no wonder, then, that “in […]
Miranda Beeson – XX/XY
XX/XY first blood flows you think it’s a cut not realizing it’s the unkindest cut of all you can bear children now you are an ungrown grown up you are 12 years old ducking into unknown toilets to unpin & pin tape & untape blackened blood its mild stench you know everyone knows the bus […]
Lynne Thompson’s Fretwork, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Lynne Thompson Fretwork Marsh Hawk Press Reviewer: Erica Goss What makes a family – biology, desire, accident or choice? In Lynne Thompson’s Fretwork, family is all of these and more. An adoptee, the author examines adoption’s fraught emotional territory with an unsentimental eye, taking the reader through the web of abandonment, coincidence, and mystery surrounding […]
George Franklin’s Traveling for No Good Reason, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
George Franklin Traveling for No Good Reason Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Most of the traveling in George Franklin’s new poetry collection is done not by train or plane but by memory. This has several advantages. Traveling by memory is inexpensive, instantaneous, and allows the traveler to go backwards and forwards in time. For […]
