Book Reviews… Review of Camille Rankine’s “Incorrect Merciful Impulses” 19 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 http://losangelesreview.org/book-review-incorrect-merciful-impulses-camille-rankine/ (Review published in The Los Angeles Review, March 2018) Camille Rankine’s compelling debut collection, Incorrect Merciful Impulses, enacts the struggles of one trying to connect broadly with society and…
Book Reviews… Speak up, a Review of Victoria Chang’s “The Boss” 19 Apr 202021 Apr 2020 This review is not online... "Speak up, a Review of Victoria Chang's The Boss" in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Number 43, 2015, pp. 62-65
Book Reviews… Review of Millicent Borges Accardi’s “Woman on a Shaky Bridge” 19 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 http://www.rattle.com/woman-on-a-shaky-bridge-by-millicent-borges-accardi/ (Review published in Rattle, 2010) In “On a Theme by William Stafford,” the first poem from Millicent Borges Accardi’s chapbook, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, the speaker begins, If…
Book Reviews… Standstill Moments, a review of Piotr Gwiazda’s “Messages” 19 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 https://jacket2.org/reviews/standstill-moments (Review published in Jacket2, December 2013) In his first book, Gargarin Street (2005), Piotr Gwiazda, after “meandering slowly from nowhere to nowhere” in a self-deprecating manner, after revealing his…
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