Diode 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 two [...]
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Lily 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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(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 (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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We are delighted to announce Kathy Nelson as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work will be published in the Vol. 20, no. 1 issue [...]
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“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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