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I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone
Maggie Schwed This first book of poems by Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone(Turtle Point Press, 2006), gives a hint of its wit in the…
Island of My Hunger–Cuban Poetry Today
Haines Eason We just may witness open dialogue between our nation and Cuba in the foreseeable future. And since the silence between our countries was part of a border of…
Hardscrabble
Haines Eason Wanting in seriousness but not in any respects lacking for vivacious word-play, Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble is an honest, agile, yet at times bulky debut. It’s so ranging a collection that…
The Water Between Us
Magdelyn Hammond Shara McCallum’s first collection, The Water Between Us, may be a typical first book of poetry that moves through the torments and glories of growing up, but it is…
Bucolics
Isaac Cates Much madness is divinest sense, or so we are told. Sure, there are a few cliquish strains of methodical madness in contemporary poetry that seem to abnegate all…
The Captain Lands In Paradise
Will Grofic Sarah Manguso’s book The Captain Lands in Paradise starts with an epigraph of the log of Christopher Columbus where upon Columbus sees a great harbor which could shelter “all the…
Mary Mackey: Travelers with No Ticket Home
Zara Raab In a sense, Travelers with No Ticket Home is a study in ethnobotany, the ways people and their cultures relate to the plants in their environment, the plants in this…
Laurie J. MacDiarmid: Consolation Prize
Karla Huston In her debut collection, Laurie MacDiarmid, a Georgetown Review Press prize-winner for 2011, presents readers with narrative and lyrical poems that are compassionate and searing, poems that are…
It was a terrible cloud at twilight
Kristina Marie Darling In her second book of poems, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch offers readers a complex understanding of childhood, in which misfortune and loss often…
James Longenbach: The Iron Key
Michele Balze James Longenbach’s collection of poetry, The Iron Key, follows two previous collections, Threshold and Fleet River. Of Fleet River, I am most familiar. That being said, while I have studied literary criticism with…