Book Reviews

Dan Pinkerton Kaia Sand: intervalby Kaia SandEdge Books2004$10 Political poems tend to sag under the weight of their agendas. The…

Will Grofic Matthew Rohrer’s debut collection, Hummock of Malookas, bristles with wonder and vitality. The straight and simple subject/verb sentences gives off…

Wynn Yarbrough Poems about Washington, D.C.Edited by Kim RobertsPlan B Press in conjunction with Beltway Poetry Quarterly  One would not…

Sonja James Buried in the Mind’s Backyard (James review)by W.M. RiveraBrickHouse Books200120 W.M. Rivera is a poet with a distinctive…

Steve Schwartz It seems to me one useful polarity by which to sort poets might run from “realistic” to “idealistic.”…

Will Grofic When my instructor Timothy Liu insisted I read Vasko Popa’s The Little Box (translations by Charles Simic), I dutifully looked…

Traci O’Dea Aaron Poochigian’s new translation of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Jason & the Argonauts demands to be read aloud—lines of perfect, unforced…

Traci O’Dea An interrobang is a little known punctuation mark that depicts a question mark and an exclamation point joined…

Kristina Marie Darling The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems spans thirty-four years of acclaimed writer Eric Pankey’s literary…

Jason Gray Eric Pankey’s new book, Oracle Figures, opens with an attempt at opening. The speaker of this, and of all…