Miniature: Poems by Mac Wellman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mac Wellman Mac Wellman Mac Wellman! An utterly sputtering act of macro-writing on (you thought they were small) points. All hail all that choruses in cinched jeering omni-verses. Come combustible choruses! Come wiry, thirsty choruses! The undoable diddles. The pekingese boxes. The nectar just …
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Review: The Cafe At Light by Mark McMorris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars ok. solid book. certainly journaly, collecting/recovering conversations, travelogues, architectures. Certainly slipping between times/places and there was a great deal put into the caryatids. And certainly more moderny than I was prepared for, but more prosey too. won me over in the horses passages-god I loved the horse passages-and certainly …
Review: Shot by Christine Hume
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am an unwilling proponent of this book because the first poem, Incubatory, convinced me that I hated it. But as I read (forcing myself to read, really, because I like Counterpath press so much) I began to think hating this book is part of loving it. It is …
Review: Tuned Droves by Eric Baus
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Review: The Cosmopolitan by Donna Stonecipher
The Cosmopolitan by Donna Stonecipher My rating: 3 of 5 stars Maybe I should have liked this more. It was tight for sure. Tight and cool and it broke when it needed to break and it got wispy and floated and then it tightened up again and delivered. Delivery is big here. Maybe I’m not …
Review: Little Ease by Aaron McCollough
Little Ease by Aaron McCollough My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this book this morning. It was cold and I loved hearing myself reading it to myself which is a little engine I created, which fits with the writing and the idea of stricture. I loved how far apart, how long, how missing. …
Review: Incivilities by Barbara Claire Freeman
Incivilities by Barbara Claire Freeman My rating: 4 of 5 stars You know you’re a badass when Judith Butler does your blurb. I swung between liking and kinda liking this. A few times I smirked because it did some twirling and ta-da’s. Sometimes the lines were like pick-up sticks–a rigid little nest — and I …
Review: Poetry State Forest by Bernadette Mayer
Poetry State Forest by Bernadette Mayer My rating: 5 of 5 stars The all hanging out and the lack of a snowblower, the tenebrous winter, the peeking. The dangling couplet, the twosome, the yoke, the other just-as-good yoke, the home stretch, the briars among the eggs, the new neighbors, the landscape of tyranny that has …
Review: Hurry Home Honey: Love Poems 1994-2004
Hurry Home Honey: Love Poems 1994-2004 by Sawako Nakayasu My rating: 5 of 5 stars Hurry Home Honey by Sawako Nakayasu is a sorta-triptych of love poems that might better be described as relationship-poems. We are cast in and out of relationships, looking forward/back, on the balcony, at play, in the book about. We are …
Review: The Comeback’s Exoskeleton by Matthew Rotando
The Comeback’s Exoskeleton by Matthew Rotando My rating: 5 of 5 stars Boyoboy. There are the endpoints and here are these/we softscape to-be things just about to. “Cavernescence of head, mucusoid webtrails pastiche my Hadean greysongs in-outward from older earthsmudge.” Matthew Rotando, achoo orlando, is expanding slash doublebacking to say onemany ways, hock, w/ musicbehindyou …
Review: The Seventy Prepositions By Carol Snow
The Seventy Prepositions By Carol Snow rating: 3 of 5 stars ok smart but *achoo* so wrought and I had a hard time catching all the drifts. See also *for crying out loud* a. very talented and b. geographically daring nude descending the stair and so c. hearkening across the shelves things inside of things. …
Review: Pastorelles by John Taggart
Pastorelles by John Taggart My rating: 5 of 5 stars hello is a sign for rural engine going ruraler, ruraler between trees mud roads kinds of flowers kinds of. hello johnny sign language make me present in fields of kinds of flowers, present maker exuding, present bolts of fabric and tell me what. johnny maker …
Review: The Men: A Lyric Book by Lisa Robertson
The Men: A Lyric Book by Lisa Robertson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I re-read this yesterday and levitated. This is one of my favorites from Robertson. (The Weather is also great.) Roberton’s lyricism always makes me feel calm and her thinking is delicate and sticky (Yay!) Every time I re-read (or re-listen); I’m …
Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet
Nicole Mauro’s Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet is in mailboxes now. I have lived it and breathed it for the last 2 weeks and now I’m stepping back to admire my badassery. This is just one of many chapbooks made for the annual Dusie Collective, but damn it, it’s ALMOST DONE and I’m celebrating! I cleaned out two …
Review: DaDaDa by Catherine Daly
DaDaDa by Catherine Daly My review rating: 4 of 5 stars Hello Catherine. I tried and failed to compare you to an eggplant today. You and the eggplant are neither too similar nor too different. The comparison was like soup and getting bloated so I tossed it and decided your proper foil …
Review: The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan
The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve forgotten that I read this last year, until I stumbled upon it in my iTunes. It’s better coming back to it. What at first struck me as crafty now seems more natural in the approach of the sonnets. Hear Me Reading The Sonnets (Badly) …
Review: This is Which by George Oppen
Oppen This Is Which by G OPPEN rating: 5 of 5 stars Hello G. I oppenned your book yesterday and what did I find? I find you in united states of telling us about it. I fancy you view the street scene and see yourself in there and then fasten your beliefs to a folding …
Flash Review: Gunslinger by Edward Dorn
Gunslinger by Edward Dorn My rating: 5 of 5 stars Oh Eddie YOU ARE the bossiest. You are the catchiest scroll of yarn. You are atangling into genflection, the post script, the making of a building with little windows and little doors. Billions and Billions. As I was saying at the Odium, a homeless preist …
Flash Review: Like Wind Loves a Window: Poems by Andrea Baker
Like Wind Loves a Window: Poems by Andrea Baker My rating: 2 of 5 stars In early sept 2006, late late late one night. I don’t know calm. In a clean calm. Day calm of an idea on some sort of clean table. Surface the page calm. Nothing missing or stretched out calm. In the …
Flash Review: Mulberry by Dan Beachy-Quick
Mulberry by Dan Beachy-Quick My rating: 3 of 5 stars I guess I am trying to come across Mulberry. The sound is the sound whether. It is in waves or multiples. The streaming turning over a piece of foam. Unsteady on the subject of seed toward the night and all: toward aspects of writing via …