Book Reviews… Review of Anna Maria Hong’s “Age of Glass” 26 Apr 2020 https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/age-of-glass/ (Review published in Colorado Review, May 2019) The speaker in “A Parable” concludes, “It was our time to savage.” Thus begins Anna Maria Hong’s vision in her first poetry…
Book Reviews… Review of Josephine Yu’s “Prayer Book of the Anxious” 26 Apr 2020 https://www.neworleansreview.org/prayer-book-of-the-anxious/ (Review published in New Orleans Review, October 2018) In the middle of Josephine Yu’s Prayer Book of the Anxious, the speaker in “Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless”…
Book Reviews… Review of Caleb Curtiss’ “A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us” 26 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 https://www.raintaxi.com/a-taxonomy-of-the-space-between-us/ (Review published in Rain Taxi, spring 2016) "Even now, I know I could use this moment, / / this dying thing to remember her with, / but I don't…
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…
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