Book Reviews

Rosy Cole The Circus Poemsby Alex GrantLorimer Press2010$16.95 (pa) Adults are inclined to the illusion that all children love clowns and…

Cati Porter Alex Grant’s Fear of Moving Water is structured in four sections, and while there is no listing for this in…

David Gewanter Essay: The Problem of Originalityby David Gewanter0000 Q: What is American about American Poetry? A: Some years ago Donald…

William Camponovo First, a confession: there is a terror in writing a review like this, a low but present thrum,…

Lee Rossi Rebecca Foust’s new book, Paradise Drive, the winner of the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry, is a diary…

Joelle Biele Mapmaking “We have not solved the problem of love, / have we?” asks Ann Fisher-Wirth in her book-length poem, Carta…

Isaac Cates Before radio, television, and the interstate highway, America’s many parts were more culturally distinct than they are today.…

John Poch B.H. Fairchild’s Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest had to be a daunting task not because of its…

Clarinda Harriss Moira Egan, Cleave, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2004, $12.00; and Carole Langille, Late in a Slow Time, The Mansfield…

Bob Sillibus Not since Agamemnon and Menelaus tore down the walls of Troy have we been witness to such atrocities…