The Rumpus gives high acclaim to Douglas Kearney's new poetry collection, Patter. The review applauds Kearney's vibrancy in his style, voice, and passion.
Sean Singer writes, "The most striking aspect of Kearney’s style is his use of font and typefaces—often with text blurring into itself. Much of Kearney’s uses of these texts rubbing against each other serve as stage directions, rapid changes in tone and speakers’ voices, or as a call-and-response mode of blues form. "
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Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife successfully draws from well-known fairly tales to create a humorously witty new book, according to American Microreviews.
Dana Livermore writes, "Koertge doesnt settle for just fairy tales. That would be too easy. Interwoven throughout the three sections of this book are a number of poems on poetry and/or poets, which evince Koertges witty sense of humor and unflinching self-awareness as a writer.
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The Philadelphia Review of Books gave glowing praises to Ernest Hilbert's poetry collection, All of You on the Good Earth. The review, written by Susan Scutti, celebrates the rhytmic essence of Hilbert's sonnets.
Lets get something straight right up front: Hilbert is masterful at rhyme. This is not over-the-top praise; his technique is simply awe-inspiring," says Scutti.
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Barrett Warner of Coal Hill Review recently called Lisa Krueger's newest poetry collection, Talisman, a "marvel", praising its imagery and metaphor of personal experiences used to help readers heal.
Warner writes, "She shows us how to be one of Rilke’s mysterious heroic angels as if it were the only way to cope with human emotional catastrophes such as grief, abuse, or even love. It’s a wise and sustaining message, but Krueger’s elastic gift to us is her abstract confessional lyric."
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Cristina Preda from The Operating System hails Lillian-Yvonne Bertram as both a historian and cartographer, as the poems in Betram's debut collection, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, take the reader through different places in time and space.
Preda writes, "A number of Bertram’s poems toy with the concept and construct of time such that she is able to assume the role of historian in real time. The result leaves you mouthing goddamn to yourself until your stop comes up on the subway."
Read more, and watch a video of Lillian reading here.
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The Anchorage Press gave an early review to Susanna Mishler's new book, Termination Dust, praising its buoyant use of imagery.
Writer Katie Medred says Mishler's "knack for relaying and capturing the everyday in a thought-provoking package is equally exciting."
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Elaine Sexton reviews Verónica Reyes' book of poetry Chopper! Chopper! and speaks volumes of Reyes' writing style in an article on Ron Slate's website On the Seawall. Sexton praises Reyes' debut collection of poetry and prose, stating that it "reads like a graphic novel, an edgy ride through Reyes' East Los Angeles."
Sexton describes Reyes' use of English and Chicana vernacular as something "a reader will enjoy…whether or not the expressions or words are familiar." She also expresses that Reyes' poems tell stories and they are "earnest, matter-of-fact portraits of lives." To read more of Sexton's review of Verónica Reyes' Chopper! Chopper!, click here!
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In a new review featured in the New Criterion, writer John Foy praises the so-called "Hilbertian sonnet" in Hilbert's latest book, All of You on the Good Earth.
“With lines like these, he pummels the sonnet-form back to life, breathing into it the whiskey-breath of the here-and-now."
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William Trowbridge's new poetry collection, Put This On, Please, is "fun, approachable and thought-provoking," according to Shelf Awareness.
"Trowbridge succeeds–making readers smile while plumbing something deeper than a giggle."
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Shelf Awareness calls Dennis Must's latest work, The World's Smallest Bible, perfect for fans of historical fiction.
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The Lincoln Journal Star recently reviewed Karen Shoemaker's The Meaning of Names, praising its unique blend of family stories and historical research.
“Shoemaker writes with even, rhythmic, beautifully colored prose… a book of big themes, true history and serious art.”
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David Mason's recent collection of poems, Sea Salt, was recently reviewed by Andrew Frisardi in the Spring/Summer edition of Angle.
Frisardi praised Mason's lyric mastery: "Mason has mastered a fluid approach to form and rhyme, going with the flow of the poem’s own movement. The form is the objective correlative of its content … Sea Salt is the real thing: one of our most authentic and accomplished poets at the top of his lyric form."
You can read the full article here!
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In a review of Veronica Reyes' Chopper! Chopper!, the poetry collection gets lauded as an "intimate portrait of her East L.A. neighborhood, family and local haunts with daring rhythm and raw sensuality."
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George Elliot Clarke of The Chronicle Herald calls Gary Geddes "proudly a political poet, though one whose honed lyrics ask for introspection and contemplation," and compares him to other celebrated politico-poets like Pablo Neruda, W.H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters and Robert Frost.
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Luke Fiddler of The Economy Magazine gives a glowing review to Douglas Kearney's new book, Patter.
He states, "By all measures, Patter scrapes vertiginous heights; it’s a magisterial study of black masculinities, and probably the most important collection of poetry published this year.”
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