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Buried in the Mind’s Backyard (Schwartz review)
Steve Schwartz It seems to me one useful polarity by which to sort poets might run from “realistic” to “idealistic.” In other words, some poets spend most of their time…
The Little Box
Will Grofic When my instructor Timothy Liu insisted I read Vasko Popa’s The Little Box (translations by Charles Simic), I dutifully looked it up online and was ready to buy. After I…
Apollonius of Rhodes: Jason & the Argonauts (translated by Aaron Poochigian)
Traci O’Dea Aaron Poochigian’s new translation of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Jason & the Argonauts demands to be read aloud—lines of perfect, unforced iambic pentameter make it as lyrical as Shelley or Frost.…
Jessica Piazza: Interrobang
Traci O’Dea An interrobang is a little known punctuation mark that depicts a question mark and an exclamation point joined together, sharing the same dot. Jessica Piazza could not have…
The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems
Kristina Marie Darling The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems spans thirty-four years of acclaimed writer Eric Pankey’s literary career. Including excerpts from seven previous collections, as well as…
Oracle Figures
Jason Gray Eric Pankey’s new book, Oracle Figures, opens with an attempt at opening. The speaker of this, and of all these poems, is one looking for a way in, but…
Smartish Pace – Issue 15
Andrew Shields Smartish Pace – Issue 15by Smartish PaceSmartish Pace, Inc.2008$10 Issue 15 of Smartish Pace contains three of my translations from the French of poems by JacquesRéda: “The Jay,” “The Milk…
Alice Notley: Culture of One
Kascha Semonovitch Observing thoughts, as a Buddhist might, does not make art, although it might make a better person. The narrator of Alice Notley’s Culture of One has realized this distinction…
The Fields of Praise
Joyce S. Brown The poetry in Marilyn Nelson’s 1997 National Book Award Finalist collection of new and selected poems, The Fields of Praise, varies richly in both subject matter and technique.…
Life in the Ordovician
Eric Hoffman In this excellent collection of poems, Robert Murphy’s language is elemental. The earth and his sense of the musicality of language are unparalleled: Murphy revels in language, and…