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Off the Fire Road
Haines Eason Off the Fire Roadby Greg WrennGreen Tower Press2008$7.00 Poet Greg Wrenn is classically attuned, but not in any classical sense. His first collection, the chapbook Off the Fire Road,…
Boy Drinkers
Anna Ziegler It is no mistake that Terence Winch’s latest collection, Boy Drinkers, begins with a poem entitled “Comfort.” These lovely, human poems represent a search for just that, in a…
Every Riven Thing
John Poch Many readers may see Christian Wiman’s new poems only through the lens of death and dying once they know of Wiman’s medical condition: he has a serious blood disease (and…
Phoenix Rising: The Next Generation of American Formal Poets
John Poch Phoenix Rising: The Next Generation of American Formal Poetsby Ed., Sonny WilliamsTextos Books2004$20 The folks who say you can’t judge a book by the cover know that, much…
Anterooms
Abigail Licad Richard Wilbur seems an anomaly in today’s largely postmodern, elliptical, elegiac, multicultural poetical climate. His fidelity to structured form and meter, heavy reliance upon classical antiquity, optimism, and…
The Blue Dress
Karla Huston The Blue Dressby Alison TownsendWhite Pine Press2000$14.95 The dilemma with this book is that every time I start to read it, I find myself putting it down to…
Bruce Taylor: The Longest You’ve Lived Anywhere: New and Selected Poems
Karla Huston Plain-spoken without being plain, with language, simple, but not simpleminded, Bruce Taylor writes in a way that allows the reader, allows you in, invites you to sit down…
Subject to Change
Diane Lockward Subject to Changeby Marilyn TaylorDavid Roberts Books2004$16.00 In this lively collection, Marilyn Taylor uses traditional forms but with a modern touch. We find sapphics, sonnets, villanelles, a rondeau,…
V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una
Janet McCann V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’unaby Stephanie StricklandPenguin2002$18.00 Stephanie Strickland’s poetry collection, V, is a wild ride in a new direction. It explores woman’s essence as she intersects with science,…
Hapax
Clare Banks A. E. Stallings’ poems in Hapax, her second full-length collection, are striking in form and subject. Many pair contemporary formalism with allusions to Greek mythology. This intersection of form…