Book Reviews

Graham Foust’s “Terminations” reviewed by Timothy Liu
I once heard a literary critic say: “Fifty years from now, John Ashbery will more or less sound like Mary Oliver.
Timothy Liu Issue #148 December 2023
Little Poems, ed. Michael Hennessy Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series, reviewed by Amit Majmudar
All anthologies are arbitrary, but some are more arbitrary than others.
Amit Majmudar Issue #147 November 2023
On Frank Stanford by Timothy Liu
They say you die three times.
Timothy Liu Issue #146 October 2023
Jared Beloff’s “Who Will Cradle Your Head” reviewed by Linda Mills Woolsey
In A Sand County Almanac (1949), Aldo Leopold writes: “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
Linda Mills Woolsey Issue #145 September 2023
Timothy Liu reviews Ana Božičević’s “New Life”
I was strolling through Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan and happened upon a reading at the outdoor Reading Room.
Timothy Liu Issue #144 August 2023
Celeste Lipkes’ “Radium Girl” reviewed by Jane Zwart
review of Radium Girl by Celeste Lipkes. University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Diane Seuss, in her essay “Restless Herd,” addresses poets. She says, “In writing and ordering your poems, you are forging a self. Housing it in a stall of its own making. You are building a bearable myth.”* As I read (and reread) Celeste Lipkes’s debut, Radium Girl,
Jane Zwart Issue #143 July 2023
Adam Scheffler’s “Heartworm” reviewed by DeWitt Henry
Adam Scheffler’s HEARTWORM: POEMS is a brilliant, laconic, and intensely alert second collection of 40 poems
DeWitt Henry Issue #142 June 2023
John Moessner’s Harmonia reviewed by Peter Vertacnik
John Moessner’s debut collection of poems published this month by Stephen F. Austin State University Press, is a book suffused with death and grieving.
Peter Vertacnik Issue #141 May 2023
“This We in the Back of the House” by Jacob Sunderlin reviewed by Jimmie Cumbie
Let’s make praise: Jacob Sunderlin’s debut, This We In The Back Of The House, is an often bruising and intrepid collection of Indiana-based poems
Jimmie Cumbie Issue #140 April 2023
banana [ ] by Paul Hlava Ceballos reviewed by Jane Zwart
Indeed, a person is standing between them: an almost anonymous character, wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, cloaked in a blue tarp that covers their face.
Jane Zwart Issue #139 March 2023
Jody Stewart’s ‘This Momentary World’ reviewed by Timothy Liu
Jody Stewart This Momentary World Nine Mile Books, 2022 ISBN 979-8-9871927-2-6 As a reader and owner of many Selecteds, I’ve pondered how to go about reading them. If the book is arranged chronologically from first book to most recent, what are the options besides
Timothy Liu Issue #138 February 2023
Say Them With Me: Disruptive Lyricism in Jos Charles’ a Year & other poems reviewed by Cassandra Whitaker
Jos Charles’ third collection, a Year & other poems
Cassandra Whitaker Issue #137 January 2023

Book Reviews

Graham Foust’s “Terminations” reviewed by Timothy Liu

Little Poems, ed. Michael Hennessy Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series, reviewed by Amit Majmudar

On Frank Stanford by Timothy Liu

Jared Beloff’s “Who Will Cradle Your Head” reviewed by Linda Mills Woolsey

Timothy Liu reviews Ana Božičević’s “New Life”

Celeste Lipkes’ “Radium Girl” reviewed by Jane Zwart

Adam Scheffler’s “Heartworm” reviewed by DeWitt Henry

John Moessner’s Harmonia reviewed by Peter Vertacnik

“This We in the Back of the House” by Jacob Sunderlin reviewed by Jimmie Cumbie

banana [ ] by Paul Hlava Ceballos reviewed by Jane Zwart

Jody Stewart’s ‘This Momentary World’ reviewed by Timothy Liu

Say Them With Me: Disruptive Lyricism in Jos Charles’ a Year & other poems reviewed by Cassandra Whitaker