Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.-
“The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space between the dreamscape of Vietnam and the glass and steel of "Gold Mountain"”
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Nina Sankovitch from Huffington Post applauds Andrew Lam's "supple and daring imagination" in Birds of Paradise Lost.-
"Lam crystallizes the tension of immigration—the pull between wanting to hold onto the old world while needing to accept the strangeness of the new—with sensitivity, beauty, and yet with a welcome lack of sentimentality or bathos."
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Deborah Poore Homer of Alaska History lauds Nicole Stellon O'Donnell.-
"Her talent with metaphor and language, and her sense of poignant moments, leaves one pondering the immensity of a familys undertaking. She also skillfully conveys the character of people who endure extreme hardships. This book helps us appreciate the effort it took to develop the land where we live, as well as the day-to-day trials and successes of women in the North."
Check out a poem from Nicole Stellon O'Donell's collection Steam Laundry on Verse Daily.
Full poem, here.
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Erik Campbell applauds William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool in the Green Mountains Review. –
“We need more books like Ship of Fool, more poetry collections that have the import and heft of an inhabitable universe. We need more poets who don’t confuse playfulness with meaninglessness. Trust me, we need more poets like William Trowbridge to remind us what it means to be a glorious schmuck chronically making an awkward bow, but bowing nonetheless—which is to say, to remind us to be human, practicing humankind-ness, as Fool does.”
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In a review for Cirque Journal, Ela Harrison Gordon praises Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's new poetry collection.-
"This collection deserves a wider readership; deserves to be seen as more than an Alaskan collection. I hope it will persuade both readers and writers of poetry that there need to be more collections like this, based on courageous and skillful melding of historical documents and lyric poems."
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Diego Baez from Booklist praises John Barr's The Adventures of Ibn Opcit, calling it "wildly imaginative, satirical verse".-
"Barr imbues his characters with such distinct voices and is so incredibly comfortable with wordplay and truly gifted at turns of phrase that the result is a (nearly guilty) pleasure to read."
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G. M. Palmer from Literary Magnet praises Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth.-
"Far more than his previous work or the work of most other poets today, Hilbert in All of You on the Good Earth lets his poems live within the sound of words, meaning not subordinated to sound like in a Stein poem but enhanced and enlivened by it as in the best words of Eliot or Plath."
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CL Bledsoe from Rain Taxi Review of Books praises Injecting Dreams into Cows by Jessy Randall.-
"Randall's poems have been appearing in various literary journals for some time, and this collection solidifies her reputation as a talent to watch."
To read the full Rain Taxi review, click here.
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Philip Fried from the Manhattan Review praises New and Selected Poems: 1957-2011, calling Robert Sward a "humorous, thoughtful, and delightful poet".-
"And what makes his work even more engaging is that the objects of his love refuse to sit mutely on the page. They animate, and sometimes take over, poems by talking back to him: directing, arguing, scolding, even jauntily menacing."
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B.H. James' Parnucklian For Chocolate is featured in the latest issue of Booklist.-
"A classic naïf, Josiah is reminiscent of Chauncey Gardner in Jerzy Kozinski’s satirical novella, Being There (1970). First novelist James seems to have similar satirical intent in his treatment of family and the condition, in Josiah’s case, of being an outsider."
To read the full review, look for the next issue of Booklist, due out February 15.
B.H. James' Parnucklian For Chocolate is featured on Publishers Weekly.-
To read the full review, click here.
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Dean Rader from the Huffington post reviews Richard Silberg's The Horses: New and Selected.-
"It's impossible to refrain from equine metaphors when writing about a book called The Horses (or Silberg's poems). They are lively, quick, unpredictable and strong. They are untamed and unbroken, and they do not want to be reigned in."
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Amos Lassen calls Speaking Wiri Wiri a rich and witty history:
"There is a poem for everyone here and themes such as identity, migration, family, history, ethnicity and others can be found in this little 80 page book. Vera finds poetry in everyday life from the banal to the exciting and he shares that with us."
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle from Sugar House Review praises New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 by Robert Sward.-
"Indeed, the winding road offered by New and Selected Poems 1957–2011 is a fruitful, enlightening journey where we are mesmerized by the sounds and sites of a poet who has examined not only what poetry is, but what it means to live as a poet. "
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