Book Reviews

Jeannine Hall Gailey When a Woman Loves a Man, Lehman’s best book of the last ten years, will shock few…

Haines Eason University of Montana graduate Melissa Kwasny’s recent poetry collection, Thistle, published by Lost Horse Press, gathers as its cause…

Jason Gray X.J. Kennedy’s newest book, The Lords of Misrule, begins with a reckoning of the dead — a cousin, his…

Su Smallen Who are the writers who put you in a coma? A coma, meaning, whose writing inspires spells of…

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…

Eric Smith In his first full-length collection, Green Squall, Jay Hopler invites his readers into a Florida teeming with the light…

Jason Ranek One might be hard-pressed to find a more appropriate diagnosis of the Western world’s current malaise than Hoffman’s…

Jason Gray Anthony Hecht’s seventh collection, The Darkness and the Light, is a mesmerization by poetic prism. The light flashes, then…

Gavin T. Richardson Anyone who has ever done genealogical work knows the mixture of joy and sorrow such an enterprise…

Beth Feagan In a recent reading Alex Grant gave at Longwood, he said that during the writing of The Poems of…