Category: Reviews
In a Kingdom of Birds
by Ken Fontenot, Pinyon Publishing, 2012, 73 pages, paper, $15.00, ISBN: 978-1-936671-07-6 Buy the Book Can ordinary lives be written simply?
Calendars of Fire
by Lee Sharkey, Tupelo Press, 2013, 60 pages, paper, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-936797-26-4 Buy the Book “Why do we war on each other? This is an
The Boss
by Victoria Chang. McSweeney’s Poetry Series, 2013, 64 pages, paper, $16, ISBN: 978-1-938073-58-8. Buy the Book “Her boss is somewhere where is
The Messenger
by Stephanie Pippin. University of Iowa Press, 2013, 70 pages, paper, $18, ISBN: 978 -1609381646. Buy the Book Birds of prey hold a place on the
Translations from the Flesh
by Elton Glaser, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, $15.95, 85 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6234-2. Buy the Book The first time I stumbled
As Long as Trees Last
by Hoa Nguyen, Wave Books, 2012, 69 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1933517612. Buy the Book Next time I’ll crack more pepper also knead more cheese in
Colony Collapse Disorder
by Keith Flynn, Wings Press, 2013, $16.00, 103 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1-60940-294-5. Buy the Book Keith Flynn is a direct heir of the Beats in
Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel
by Srecko Kosovel, Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Seigel Carlson, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY, 2010, 220 pages,
The Trouble Ball
by Martin Esapda, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, 66 pages, paper, $15.95, ISBN: 978-0-393-3456-4. Buy the Book Martin Espada is no longer a
Our Andromeda
by Brenda Shaughnessy. Copper Canyon Press, 2012, $16, paper, ISBN: 978-1-55659-410-6. Buy the Book We do artists few favors when we say, as a

