Ace Boggess’s Ultra Deep Field, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Ace Boggess Ultra Deep Field Brick Road Poetry Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Ace Boggess is a poet who can circle a campfire, pause at each of the main points of the compass, gaze at the fire, and deliver a different but compelling image from each angle—while keeping the reader engaged and interested through the […]
John Elsberg’s Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
John Elsberg Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems of John Elsberg (Constance M. Elsberg, Editor) Paycock Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Not Quite Ocean celebrates the poetry of John Elsberg (1945-2012), a poet, editor, and historian who authored over a dozen poetry books and chapbooks and served as editor or associate editor of various literary magazines, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Marc Frazier’s Each Things Touches,
Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Marc Frazier Each Thing Touches Glass Lyre Press ISBN: 978-1-941783-07-8 Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Most poetry collections have a poem near the beginning that gives the reader clues on how to read the book. Each Thing Touches by Chicago poet Marc Frazier has at least two. The prologue poem, “After,” opens with “I heard […]
