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The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife
Jacqueline Kolosov-Wenthe Joan Kane’s visionary first collection, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, renders the Alaskan landscape without imposing a human meaning on life in the wilderness; in the process, Kane succeeds, more successfully than many…
Green Squall [Smith Review]
Eric Smith In his first full-length collection, Green Squall, Jay Hopler invites his readers into a Florida teeming with the light of a lush world where “the grass was lizarding,” (“In…
The American Eye
Jason Ranek One might be hard-pressed to find a more appropriate diagnosis of the Western world’s current malaise than Hoffman’s Emerson lamenting, on the Sicilian leg of his European journey:…
The Darkness and the Light
Jason Gray Anthony Hecht’s seventh collection, The Darkness and the Light, is a mesmerization by poetic prism. The light flashes, then goes dark, and we are under his spell. From love…
Home Truths: Ryan Guth
Gavin T. Richardson Anyone who has ever done genealogical work knows the mixture of joy and sorrow such an enterprise involves. Even the most respectable of families has its skeletons–persons,…
Alex Grant: The Poems of Wing Lei
Beth Feagan In a recent reading Alex Grant gave at Longwood, he said that during the writing of The Poems of Wing Lei, he became Wing Lei. This latest volume of Grant’s is…
The Circus Poems
Rosy Cole The Circus Poemsby Alex GrantLorimer Press2010$16.95 (pa) Adults are inclined to the illusion that all children love clowns and masks and life-sized puppets, but the unknown being inside a funny…
Fear of Moving Water
Cati Porter Alex Grant’s Fear of Moving Water is structured in four sections, and while there is no listing for this in the table of contents, each is preceded by a brief…
Essay: The Problem of Originality
David Gewanter Essay: The Problem of Originalityby David Gewanter0000 Q: What is American about American Poetry? A: Some years ago Donald Hall coined a memorable term for school-based, formulaic American poetry:…
Richard Georges: Make Us All Islands
William Camponovo First, a confession: there is a terror in writing a review like this, a low but present thrum, almost percussive: When (and where, and how – responsibly) to mention…