Archeophonics
Gizzi is always exacting with his line breaks and in this case uses them to test his feeble autonomy over language by showing that he can break the line wherever and however he wants.
Escape Velocity
Thirteenth in the Mountain West Poetry Series, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell From the moment of a marriage’s heated inception to its period of luminous crowding and onward into distance and darkness, Bonnie Arning’s Escape Velocity asks if it’s possible to exist outside the only universe we’ve ever known. In modes both lyric […]
&luckier
Twelfth in the Mountain West Poetry Series, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and—even more so—selves. From a mosaic of coffee cups, dinner engagements, razors, walks around his city, and the […]
My Fault
Rather than search for absolution, Fridman writes into the complicity, into the fault.
The Division of Labor
There is optimism in this book, but it is an optimism like none I’ve otherwise encountered—it is one that does not say “all will be fixed”; it is one that says we will, at least, forever be able to begin again.
Bestiary
Kelly’s sentimentality is distorted through trauma, but it is that distortion that draws us in
Burn Lyrics
Landry has approached the art of erasure in reverse, so that something of the timeless, meditative tone of Sappho remains, no doubt amplified by one’s foreknowledge going into the work, and yet they become poems wholly separate.
May Day
Marquette’s collection makes a compelling claim for the importance of honest and deeply personal expressions of experience.
Story in a White Diction
in spite of the garish death of his second wife / who fell from their lofted master suite onto a crystal decanter / and not, as local bloggers have suggested, the other way / around
Not Trash Day
Once at IHOP there was a woodstork / walking past the window and we watched the cook / out the back door give it kitchen scraps./ Was it being taken care of?