Book Reviews

Zara Raab In a sense, Travelers with No Ticket Home is a study in ethnobotany, the ways people and their cultures relate…

Karla Huston In her debut collection, Laurie MacDiarmid, a Georgetown Review Press prize-winner for 2011, presents readers with narrative and…

Kristina Marie Darling In her second book of poems, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch offers readers a…

Michele Balze James Longenbach’s collection of poetry, The Iron Key, follows two previous collections, Threshold and Fleet River.  Of Fleet River, I am most familiar. …

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…

Jacqueline Kolosov “Grace,” one of the first poems in the collection, is a poem of praise. Here the speaker praises…

Carrie Meadows Sarah Lindsay’s Twigs & Knucklebones is an ambitious poetry collection, with its center section, “The Kingdom of Nab,” every bit…

Kristina Marie Darling Loveliest Grotesque, winner of the Kore Press First Book Award, introduces readers to Sandra Lim’s spare, lyrical…

Maggie Paul The poems in Lynn Levin’s second book, Imaginarium, reveal a mature heart smitten by the elusive promise of happiness…

Christian Anton Gerard Shara Lessley: Two-Headed Nightingaleby Shara LessleyNew Issues Poetry & Prose2013$15.00 One of the central concerns pervading Percy…