Book Reviews

Karla Huston Plain-spoken without being plain, with language, simple, but not simpleminded, Bruce Taylor writes in a way that allows…

Diane Lockward Subject to Changeby Marilyn TaylorDavid Roberts Books2004$16.00 In this lively collection, Marilyn Taylor uses traditional forms but with…

Janet McCann V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’unaby Stephanie StricklandPenguin2002$18.00 Stephanie Strickland’s poetry collection, V, is a wild ride in a new…

Clare Banks A. E. Stallings’ poems in Hapax, her second full-length collection, are striking in form and subject. Many pair contemporary…

Matthew Campbell Roberts For William Stafford readers, the long awaited release of Another World Instead offers insights into the shaping of one…

Ann Kolakowski In an interview published earlier this year, Elizabeth Spires was asked how her work has matured since the…

John Poch In Lisa Russ Spaar’s new book, though never mentioned by name, Persephone is the presiding genius. Persephone’s presence…

Walter Bargen A Saturday at the Flying Dog, winner of the1998 Field Poetry Prize, is a quantum leap into a…

Christian Anton Gerard “Have I reached the end of the world? / Or Indiana?” Bruce Snider asks at the end…

Ravi Shankar Poetry and Moral Vision: A Symposiumby Ravi Shankar2003 Aftereffects of downpour lingered as mist in the early autumn…