Heaven and Other Poems by Israel Horovitz
Lois Bassen reviews Israel Horovitz’s Heaven and Other Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Scarecrone by Melissa Broder
Lois Bassen reviews Melissa Broder’s Scarecrone today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2014 Edited by Robert Bringhurst
Lois Bassen reviews The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2014 edited by Robert Bringhurst today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bilateral Asymmetry by Don Riggs
Lois Bassen reviews Bilateral Asymmetry by Don Riggs today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreGirl In Cap and Gown by Harriet Levin
Filmgoers this year who saw the documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3-D (or not) entered the prehistoric Chauvet caves of Southern France in a stunning modern way. The labor to return to the stone womb felt transformative but untranslatable. The viewer lacked the keys to that kingdom. Questioning whether poetry is/has a door […]
...moreYou Mean Garden, Don’t You?
The collection’s last section, “The Two Thousandsies” (dedicated to Rachel Maddow), his “Garden of Eden” reminds us this Professor Emeritus poet has managed to sustain over decades a vision of the profane as sacred, which alone is worth the price of admission.
...moreThe Dead Man’s Back Arches
The collection works as poetic biography and Whitmanesque dialogue, and this approach and its repetitions become irresistibly hypnotic.
...moreMore Horses Than We Need
Perspective and introspection are plentiful in this fine retrospective collection, but Gallagher doesn’t fully see now. She speculates profoundly and eloquently, metaphysically — never astro/quantum physically, as if from any century — but our own.
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