Dactyl Review examines The World's Smallest Bible, the new novel by Dennis Must, calling him a "searching writer, able to transcribe madness and instability, the wrack of obsession and the weariness of giving in. Reality, in Must’s hand, is always flirting with the abyss and this gives his prose, perhaps unlike his characters, an expansiveness and wonder, quite beyond the ordinary."
Read the full review here.
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Timothy Otte of Hazel and Wren recently praised Jessica Piazza's Interrobang as "free flowing and contemporary, yet formally precise, employing the same linguistic tricks that mark sonnets written by the masters."
Read the full review here.
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Pause, Traveler by Erin Couglin Hollowell was recently reviewed by Kris Bigalk from Poetry Northwest, calling it impressive with "elements of story and song, evoked through a uniquely contemporary lens."
Bigalk writes, "These poems show us how time forges us into the kind of human beings who are capable not of merging with one another, but of complementing one another in a far richer sort of relationship with ourselves, others, and the world."
Read the full review here.
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Poetry Northwest asks the readers to put their trust in the words of Nicelle Davis in their latest review of Becoming Judas.
Alexis Vergalla proclaims, "I'll go back again, because I trust in her words and the feathers she's dropped for me to follow. If you want something that is easy, walk away now. If not trust Nicelle Davis. And watch her. This is a strong beginning, and worth following her uncertain steps into the desert."
Read the full review here.
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In a recent review of Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife, Neil McCarthy (from his namesake blog, Neil McCarthy Poetry) expresses his jealousy and high regard for Koertge's fantastical poetry collection.
McCarthy says, "There are poems in The Ogre’s Wife that demonstrate Ron’s versatility as a writer; his knack of turning what could have easily just existed as an amusing anecdote into a poem that anyone can read and enjoy."
Read the full review here.
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Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe received high praises for its humor and originality in Neil McCarthy's blog, Neil McCarthy Poetry.
"It’s only a matter of time before someone coins an adjective from Brendan Constantine’s name to describe the poetry of someone else who might have come close to something as original as Brendan’s work," states McCarthy.
Read the full review here.
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Paula Mendoza recently wrote an analytical and positive review of Jessica Piazza's Interrobang for the Boxcar Poetry Review.
Mendoza writes, "Piazza reads like the best hip-hop; verbal acrobatics that tempers its own swagger with soul. Whomever she cites as influences, whatever resources she draws from, no doubt the voice here is entirely her own, as vulnerable as it is precise, and resounding with terror and love."
Read the full review here.
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FOCUS magazine's Amy Reiswig takes us into Gary Geddes' new collection of poems, What Does A House Want?, in which she proclaims, "Geddes is able to explore both our humanity and inhumanity through extraordinary acts of imaginative intimacy."
Read the full review here.
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Verionica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives was called a "genunie treasure" by Vince Gotera in the North American Review.
Read the full article in the most recent issue of the North American Review.
Eva Saulitis' collection of essays, Leaving Resurrection, was recently reviewed by Randon Billings Noble from the blog, As it Out to Be.
Noble writes, "This collection is one that I will not easily leave behind. I will return to it again and again, like the transient whales Saulitis follows, always searching for something new and mysterious, even off familiar shores."
To read the full review of Leaving Resurrection, click here.
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Douglas Kearney's latest poetry collection, Patter, got an early review from blogger and The Rumpus poetry editor, Brian Spears, on his personal blog New in Des Moines.
Spears describes the poems as "much visual art as they are written" and able to "impact all your senses at once."
In the review, Spears was able to deeply relate to Kearney's poetry. He writes, "What makes this book different—more intense, from my point of view—is the subject matter. Much of the book deals with the difficulties he and his wife had in conceiving and giving birth to their children. I recognize much of what he talks about in metaphoric and disjunctive ways." Check out Spears' full review here.
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Glassworks reviewed Ernest Hilbert's latest poetry collection, All of You on the Good Earth, praising its use of perspective and observation to reflect on past and modern humanity.
Writer Stephanie M. Kohler says, "A denizen of the present and an admirer of the past, Hilbert is human: he is an observer. He doesn’t overlook the not so pristine images of industrialism or modernity, but he also does not herald the great histories. Instead, he delves into both, mixing old and new, reaching for truth as he sees it, using one of the most classical literary forms, each sonnet a small window looking out to the larger view."
Check out Kohler's full article here.
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Jessica Piazza's poetry collection Interrobang recieves an enthusiastic review from literary site The Rumpus.
Writer Mag Gabbert proclaims, "The experience of reading these poems is like wandering through a hall of mirrors… The language of these poems is not simple, and it is not always direct. These pieces are both complicated and contemplative; they are reflective and faceted."
To read Gabbert's full review on Interrobang, visit The Rumpus here: http://therumpus.net/2013/12/the-sunday-rumpus-review-interrobang-by-jessica-piazza/
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Pedestal Magazine reviewed Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas, complimeting the poet on her unique ability to mix topics of religion, love and desire, among others, into one seemless collection.
JoSelle Vanderhooft writes, “At its heart, Becoming Judas is a work every bit as heretical as the gospel from which it draws its inspiration, though the heresies it explores are less the stuff of fiery condemnation from the Vatican and more the painful truths and complications of life that are as inconvenient as they are seldom acknowledged…”
Read Vanferhooft's full article at Pedestal Magazine here: http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=23358
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Kathleen Driskell's poem "Seed" from her collection Seed Across Snow has been featured on the Spokesman Review. Writer Ted Kooser describes the poem's focus on the sweetness of parent-child bonds, as he writes, “Many of us feel a great sense of pride as we watch our children discover the world for the first time. Here, Kathleen Driskell, a Kentucky poet, shows us her own daughter taking that first taste of a late summer watermelon she has grown herself.”
Read Kooser's full article, as well as as the poem "Seed" in its entirety, at the Spokeman Review: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/dec/22/american-life-in-poetry/
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