Corey Van Landingham
“Stay With Me”: A Review, and a Case for Difficulty
This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
"Soto’s work reminds us that the San Joaquin Valley remains a 'place of wonderment—yes, wonderment,' whose people are, among other things, complex, hard-working, faithful, imaginative, hopeful, caring, animated, cultured, enduring."
Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Steve Almond
All the Secrets of the World, by Steve Almond. Zando Projects, 416 ppl, $28.
For twenty years, Steve Almond has enjoyed a widely-lauded career as a writer of short … Read the rest
No Longer the Bystander
By Esteban Rodríguez
Why the Assembly Disbanded, by Roberto Tejada. Fordham University Press, 88 pp., $16.95.
instrumentation for distributed empathy monetization, by William Lessard. Kernpunkt Press, 40 pp.,
… Read the rest Four Takes: Devon Walker-Figueroa’s PHILOMATH
"In the hands of Walker-Figueroa ... enjambment is not just a craft technique—hers is an existential enjambment."
Mythmaking in Three Debuts
By Laura Villareal
Swallowed Light, by Michael Wasson. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $17.
Philomath, by Devin Walker-Figueroa. Milkweed Editions, 104 pp., $16.
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking,
… Read the rest One Vast Shadow: The Poetry of (Self)Perspective
Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry
Brocken Spectre, by Jacques Rancourt. Alice James Books, 100 pp., $18.95.
West Portal, by Benjamin Gucciardi. Unviersity of Utah Press, 64
… Read the rest This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
"Kyrie’s sonnets aren’t only in conversation with historical events ... but with the history of verse itself."
Survival Songs
By David Roderick
Oh You Robot Saints!, by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 96 pp., $15.95.
Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez. BOA Editions, 122
… Read the rest Marginalia: Chet’la Sebree, Andrew Ciotola, Ron Tanner, G.C. Waldrep
The Sum of Trifles, by Julia Ridley Smith. University of Georgia Press, 238 pp., $22.95.
Julia Ridley Smith’s memoir-in-essays, The Sum of Trifles, begins with an invitation from her … Read the rest
