Joseph Hutchison’s The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor

Joseph Hutchison The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015 NYQ Books Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Currently serving as Poet Laureate of Colorado, Joseph Hutchison has fifteen volumes of poetry to his credit, so this sixteenth collection, a substantial, 264-page gathering of his work from 1972 to 2015, is certainly due, if not past […]

Daniel Y. Harris’s The Rapture of Eddy Daemon, Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg

Daniel Y. Harris The Rapture of Eddy Daemon (A Posthuman Homage to SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS) BlazeVOX Reviewer: Ricardo Nirenberg We gather from his CV that Harris has a degree in divinity from UChicago, and we can tell from leafing through this new collection that his intellectual interests are wide enough to cover all human reality, which […]

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 […]