Last month, Connie T. Braun, writing for Prism Magazine, published a review of Gary Geddes' poetry collection, What Does A House Want?: Selected Poems, and perfectly captured Gary's briliance.
“This volume’s poetic texture, with its brilliance of light and its deepening shadows, is marvellous and formidable. Gary Geddes is already canonized as a major Canadian poet, but in his gifts of truth and language, he is also a humanitarian, and perhaps a prophet.”
To read the full review, click here.
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"Gainey’s first full-length poetry collection, the GAFFER, combines reflections on her lighting career with childhood memories and gender bending to illuminate the emergence of a female gaffer in the 1970s… Gainey cannot avoid light in her poems: Only a gaffer would notice the burning terminal lights, yet only a poet would think to write about them and then to feel that all of those rays are symbolic of some celestial place."
Read Pop City Media's full review here.
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Recently, the Colorado Poets Center published the Winter 2015 issue of their publication, The Colorado Poet, featuring an interview with David Mason, Red Hen author of Ludlow and Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014. Bob King sat down with David to discuss everything from his sources of inspiration to his use of pronouns. It's a must-read.
To read the interview in full, click here.
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Last week, Ellen Meeropol posted an essay on Necessary Fiction detailing the fascinating process of the research she did while writing her new novel On Hurricane Island, from learning the history of a small town to experiencing what it is like to wield a gun. The essay is absolutely a must-read.
To read the essay, click here.
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Recently, Joe Donahue of Northeast Public Radio interviewed Ellen Meeropol about her new novel, On Hurricane Island. Give it a listen here.
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Last week, Tinky Weisblat, writing for The Recorder, wrote a review of Ellen Meeropol's On Hurricane Island, praising Ellen's ability to combine a critique of modern society with a great story. Here's what Tinky had to say:
“The book’s tension never lets up. Just as the reader thinks the protagonists are safe, a quick twist puts them in jeopardy once more. Ellen Meeropol has managed to combine political critique with gripping, entertaining narrative.”
Read the full review here.
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Recently, Melissa Aadmo, writing for World Literature Today, published a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living, praising the "sharp, lyrical" style of Adrianne's writing and singing her praises. Here's some of what she had to say:
“The experience of Ruin is encapsulated in one line: “I am strangely freed in this city, perhaps because my eventual leaving allows for more acute desire.” One can easily replace “city” with “book” here—this hybrid work, combining poetry, journalism, and memoir, leaves us all wanting more.”
To read the full review, click here.
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Recently, Biljana D. Obradović, writing for World Literature today, reviewed Karen Shoemaker's novel, The Meaning of Names, and had great things to say about what the book can teach its readers.
“Reading this novel puts the reader on the edge of her seat; it is intensely moving, and Shoemaker teaches lessons about social tolerance and how dangerous small-mindedness can be, an important lesson for all ages, but especially today.”
To read the full review, click here.
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Recently, Poetry Northwest published a review of Kelly Davio's Burn This House, and they had great things to say about Kelly's use of sound and rhythm.
"Clearly Davio is a skillful storyteller, adept at using sound and rhythm to their fullest potential, as she does in the poem “Patience”: “When you hear the knock on the back door, wait,” the poem begins, before moving on, a few lines later, to the wonderfully evocative image: “You will be // as a spider’s nest, squatting, moving only / in a threat to crack.” Indeed, the poems throughout this book are like nests of spiders, seemingly compact collections of words from which images and associations emerge, then scatter."
To read the full review, click here.
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Coldfront Magazine recently revealed their top 40 poetry books of 2014, and we are thrilled that Douglas Kearney's excellent collection, Patter, is on the list! Here's what Coldfront's Diana Arterian had to say about Patter:
"This is a book worth reading in a single sitting, letting it take you under from the get-go. I have trouble quoting from it. It fights being excerpted. But this book is rich – it is a text that you can read many times over for its music, material, bravery, pointed playfulness, its social consciousness, its deep intelligence."
For the full article, click here.
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Recently, Andrew E. Colarusso, writing for Broome Street Review, wrote a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's RUIN, and had nothing but good things to say.
"Ruin was written to remind us: from a fragmented sense of self, from the memories we carry and the experiences we live, it is possible to cull meaningful wholeness. This is a sui generis collection of sage and relevant essays for a world that seems more confusing daily."
Check out the full review here.
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Recently, Rory Waterman, writing for The Times Literary Supplement reviewed David Mason's newest Poetry collection, Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014, and had great things to say about the book's brevity:
"Mason is a poet of admirable restraint, of multifaceted and sometimes riotous feelings made more poignant by being held firmly in check. His poems are often laconic, thought they keep up an intense interrogation of what it means to be human, and never try to slip life's punches. It is time David Mason found the British readership his work deserves, and this book is perhaps his most consistently moving and accomplished to date."
To read the rest of the review, click here.
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In it's Winter 2015 issue, Foreword Reviews recently ran a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's new book Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living and they are big fans. Here's what Sara Budzik has to say about Ruin:
"Kalfopoulou has speny many years as a teacher, and this is evident throughout Ruin by the success of her organization and research and the prose-like of some of her more fragmented vignettes or essays. The subtleties of exilic living are densely woven together in personal and illuminating reflections that demand attentive reading."
To read the full review, be sure to check out Foreword Reviews' Winter 2015 issue!
Barbara Hoffert of Library Journal places America Hart's into the silence on the Top Indie Fiction: 15 Key Titles Beyond the Best Sellers List for Fall 2014.
She writes that the novel is "for language lovers rather than plot seekers; certainly demanding, but Hart is someone to watch."
To read the rest of the review and to see what other books made the list, click here.
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Erin H. Turner of Big Sky Journal reviewed Pete Fromm's novel, If Not for This, and had this to say about it:
“Where the brilliance of this novel shines through is in the depiction of the love and struggle that exists between Dalton and Maddy and eventually their two children as we see it through Maddy’s baffled and infuriated and grateful-but-not-happy-about-it eyes.”
Click here to read the rest of the review.
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