This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection Milk and Honey (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015) is a powerful and deeply felt exploration of womanhood, identity,… Read more “A Review of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey”
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Two Ways to Lose a Child
This essay first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Katie Ford’s Blood Lyrics and Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel: A Poemwere among my favorite poetry collections of 2014, and both work on the same… Read more “Two Ways to Lose a Child”
A Review of Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Mary Oliver’s newest collection of poetry is a simple one, and as lovely and as gently insightful as we’ve… Read more “A Review of Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver”
2 New Poetry Books from Platypus Press
Platypus Press is a new boutique publisher from the UK focusing on poetry, and I recently had the privilege of reading two books from their small catalogue of titles. Sausalito Poems,… Read more “2 New Poetry Books from Platypus Press”
A Review of Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. In his newest poetry collection, Application for Release from the Dream (Graywolf Press), Tony Hoagland comes across as a bit of… Read more “A Review of Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland”
A Review of Stay: Prose Poems by Kathleen McGookey
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. Stay. In Kathleen McGookey’s new prose poetry collection of that title (Press 53) the word has several meanings. In the… Read more “A Review of Stay: Prose Poems by Kathleen McGookey”
Childhood and Mortality in Two Very Different Books
This essay first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way childhood memories tease and flirt with our sense of mortality.… Read more “Childhood and Mortality in Two Very Different Books”
Dubious Lexicon: A Review of Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. I typically read one or two books for review a week, so reading time is always at a premium;… Read more “Dubious Lexicon: A Review of Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss”
Tender and Wild: A Review of John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. In The Fair Chase, the extended opening poem of John Burnside’s latest volume of poetry, the narrator hunts a strange creature through… Read more “Tender and Wild: A Review of John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone”
A Review of Gregory Pardlo’s Digest
This review first appeared on Fourth & Sycamore. “All the gods fettered to the machinery of our routine lives” That’s the final line of the poem All God’s… Read more “A Review of Gregory Pardlo’s Digest”
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