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Sherry Chandler Eve’s Red Dressby Diane LockwardWind Publications2003$14 The poems in Eve’s Red Dress are about “Losing the Blues.” Like any honky-tonk girl on a Saturday night, Eve slips into her red…

Jacqueline Kolosov “Grace,” one of the first poems in the collection, is a poem of praise. Here the speaker praises ‘my plain young mother for leaving/her husband’s bed/…’ ‘the caked…

Carrie Meadows Sarah Lindsay’s Twigs & Knucklebones is an ambitious poetry collection, with its center section, “The Kingdom of Nab,” every bit as complex and substantive and satisfying as a stand-alone book…

Kristina Marie Darling Loveliest Grotesque, winner of the Kore Press First Book Award, introduces readers to Sandra Lim’s spare, lyrical poems, which examine such diverse subjects as romance, ruin, and…

Maggie Paul The poems in Lynn Levin’s second book, Imaginarium, reveal a mature heart smitten by the elusive promise of happiness in a blemished world. Levin reveals a self-proclaimed “greed” for…

Christian Anton Gerard Shara Lessley: Two-Headed Nightingaleby Shara LessleyNew Issues Poetry & Prose2013$15.00 One of the central concerns pervading Percy Shelley’s A Defense of Poetry is the idea of vital metaphor, that…

Jeannine Hall Gailey When a Woman Loves a Man, Lehman’s best book of the last ten years, will shock few regular followers of his work. After all, we don’t read…

Haines Eason University of Montana graduate Melissa Kwasny’s recent poetry collection, Thistle, published by Lost Horse Press, gathers as its cause a wide-ranging sheaf of Mountain West flora. These Ovid-esque poems…

Jason Gray X.J. Kennedy’s newest book, The Lords of Misrule, begins with a reckoning of the dead — a cousin, his “third-best friend” from grade school, and a “harmless lunatic” who…

Su Smallen Who are the writers who put you in a coma? A coma, meaning, whose writing inspires spells of suspended animation while we appear to be reading one page…