Category: Reviews

The Gorgeous Nothings
by Emily Dickinson, edited by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin with a preface by Susan Howe, New Directions /Christine Burgin, 2013, hardcover, 272

Churches
by Kevin Prufer, Four Way Books, 2014, paper, 96 pages, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-935536-43-7 Buy the Book Many of the poems in Churches, by Kevin

Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
by Jeffrey McDaniel, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, paper, 88 pages, $15.95, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6260-1 Buy the Book After reading his fifth

I See Hunger’s Children
Selected Poems 1962–2012, by normal, LUMMOX Press, 2013, 111 pages, paper, $15, ISBN: 978-1-929878-80-2 Buy the Book My favorite poem in this

In a Kingdom of Birds
by Ken Fontenot, Pinyon Publishing, 2012, 73 pages, paper, $15.00, ISBN: 978-1-936671-07-6 Buy the Book Can ordinary lives be written simply?

Calendars of Fire
by Lee Sharkey, Tupelo Press, 2013, 60 pages, paper, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-936797-26-4 Buy the Book “Why do we war on each other? This is an

The Boss
by Victoria Chang. McSweeney’s Poetry Series, 2013, 64 pages, paper, $16, ISBN: 978-1-938073-58-8. Buy the Book “Her boss is somewhere where is

The Messenger
by Stephanie Pippin. University of Iowa Press, 2013, 70 pages, paper, $18, ISBN: 978 -1609381646. Buy the Book Birds of prey hold a place on the

Translations from the Flesh
by Elton Glaser, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, $15.95, 85 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6234-2. Buy the Book The first time I stumbled

As Long as Trees Last
by Hoa Nguyen, Wave Books, 2012, 69 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1933517612. Buy the Book Next time I’ll crack more pepper also knead more cheese in