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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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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,…

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…