“We Call Them Beautiful” * KC Trommer
by Scott Hightower · February 25, 2020Diode Editions, 2019, 978-1-939728-29-6. Poetry is itself a trick, an illusion of survival. With a title like “We Call Them Beautiful” one has to get past [...]
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“Little What” Jeff Oaks
by Scott Hightower · December 04, 2019Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019, 978-1-7337683-3-7, $15. The poems in Jeff Oaks’ Little What are masterfully hearty and inhabited. Memory, rising and falling, can be very [...]
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“Spring Sonnets” by Don Yorty
by Scott Hightower · October 23, 2019(Indolent Books, 978-1-945023-22-4, 2019, $19.99) Don Yorty notes that he started writing a large set of sonnets shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. They [...]
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LITTLE-KNOWN OPERAS, Patrick Donnelly
by Scott Hightower · September 11, 2019LITTLE-KNOWN OPERAS, Patrick Donnelly (Four Way Books, 9781945588310, 2019, 15.95) In one of the opening poems of Patrick Donnelly’s “Little-Known Operas” an-eater-of-songbirds covers his head to [...]
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AMY LEMMON: “THE RISK OF MAKING THIS ABOUT ME”
by Scott Hightower · May 17, 2019“THE MIRACLES” Amy Lemmon: C & R Press, 978-1-949540-00-0, $16.00 Writing is a socially charged, personal art. It is a direct line from the artist’s mouth [...]
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CÉSAR MANRIQUE: SHEPHARD OF ZEPHERS AND VOLCANOES
by Scott Hightower · March 07, 2019CÉSAR MANRIQUE (1919-1992), the Spanish artist: painter, sculptor, architect, may not be known to many… so let this be an introduction. He was born on Lanzarote, [...]
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