Book Reviews

Review: Absolute Bob by Anne Portugal

01.31.2011 Poetry Reviews

Absolute Bob by Anne Portugal My rating: 5 of 5 stars This one will give you whip lash it’s so fast and engaging. I can’t say I know if it’s about anything except the act of doing things and having them done. Images captured, buildings erected, reprieves granted, disasters ensued and and and “Bob;” a [...]

Tagged as: Anne Portugal, Burning Deck, Jennifer Moxley, Poetry Reviews

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Review: The Geoglyph by Patrick Kosiewicz

01.31.2011 Poetry Reviews

The Geoglyph by Patrick Kosiewicz My rating: 3 of 5 stars This ode to natural sciences really spread out on the page. It took me about 15 minutes to read all 77 pages and I’m a pretty slow reader. Spanning the creation of the earth to its burgeoning wildlife, it was a macro-topic which is [...]

Tagged as: Fly by Night Press, Patrick Kosiewicz, Poetry Reviews

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Review: Fruitlands by Kate Colby

01.30.2011 Poetry Reviews

Fruitlands by Kate Colby My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have no idea about this book. Having forced myself thru lines like “concentric desire outspreads / her strained connectives” to get to more interesting poems like False Spring and Untitled Triptych – I just don’t know. Colby is obviously talented but maybe a little [...]

Tagged as: Kate Colby, Litmus Press, Poetry Reviews

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Review: To Light Out by Karen Weiser

01.30.2011 Poetry Reviews

To Light Out by Karen Weiser My rating: 2 of 5 stars While the lyric in these poems was exciting and the imagination is certainly there, I just couldn’t get past the thinking — a quadrupling-up a metaphors to describe what exactly? Angels? Birth? I did stop caring. And got frustrated. View all my reviews

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Review: Under the Sun by Rachel Levitsky

01.28.2011 Poetry Reviews

Under the Sun by Rachel Levitsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars Take a story and foreshorten it replace the names and re-lace the conversation more awkwardly so that thinking is a fact/axis and apologize say sorry. Pivot on “this” and “which.” Pivot any spinning thing desperately this swiftness and silence things happen in. Indeed [...]

Tagged as: Futurepoem, Poetry Reviews, Rachel Levitsky

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Reviews: Eclat Sites 1-10 by Caroline Bergvall

01.27.2011 Poetry Reviews
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Eclat Sites 1-10 by Caroline Bergvall My rating: 5 of 5 stars Who wants to make something with this language that has to be made in a box. Made box that opens that closes. you can tape it and break the tape to open the box made. you made an o pening with a pen [...]

Tagged as: Caroline Bergvall, Conceptual Poetry, Poetry Reviews, Ubu Editions

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Review: Precise Intrigues by Mary Angeline

01.27.2011 Poetry Reviews

Precise Intrigues by Mary Angeline My rating: 4 of 5 stars A pleasant read where was I in the arrangement of articles “a” and “the” post-postness. Attuned silver forks many tines to her ear airs. The like facts that Angeline has preppy positions, darling danglers, academy obfuscation and legal heretofor. No go on the space [...]

Tagged as: Mary Angeline, Poetry Reviews, Post Apollo Press

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Review: Protective Immediacy by Rod Smith

01.26.2011 Poetry Reviews

Protective Immediacy by Rod Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars It is elastic and eeking and as anti as it is american ramshackle orchestral backflips. But extraordinarily hard to quote back so woe is you who have not read rod. View all my reviews

Tagged as: Poetry Reviews, Rod Smith, Segue

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Review: Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling by Sarah Riggs

01.26.2011 Poetry Reviews

Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling by Sarah Riggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really get this book. So much so I’m teetering on uncanniness, so there am I. Chain… is a re-re-re work. It puts forth multiple iterations of a primary text. The primary text is like a [...]

Tagged as: Poetry Reviews, Reality Street Editions, Sarah Riggs

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Review: In Medias Res: Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee

01.23.2011 Poetry Reviews

In Medias Res: Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am usually not in the Saraband camp, but I bought this in NY last year because something calmed me about the layout – little pieces of things alphabetized like a dictionary. And it was rather calming. A one-sitting kind of [...]

Tagged as: Karen An-hwei Lee, Poetry Reviews, Sarabande Books

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