By Laura Villareal
Mythmaking in Three Debuts
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
“A Knife Housed in Glass”: Grief and Art in Victoria Chang
By Katie Berta
OBIT, by Victoria Chang. Copper Canyon Press, 120 pp., $17
In her newest poetry collection, OBIT, Victoria Chang quotes John Updike, who wrote, “Each day, we … Read the rest
