Book Reviews

“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
Humor and Grace in The Survival Expo by Caki Wilkinson reviewed by Barbara Murphy
We know we are in for a wild ride just looking at the cover of Caki Wilkinson’s daring third book
Barbara Murphy Issue #136 December 2022
THE SOUND BOAT by Judith Vollmer reviewed by Linda Johnston Muhlhausen
What’s the poor reviewer to do, faced with trying to do justice to a volume of poetry as gastronomically and symphonically generous as Judith Vollmer’s The Sound Boat?
Linda Muhlhausen Issue #135 November 2022
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds by Orlando Ricardo Menes reviewed by Andrea Read
A World Graced by Disorder: Orlando Ricardo Menes’s The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds “I will not desist in finding God, mine & yours…” From the dry puna winds of his childhood Lima to a first glorious rainfall – aguacero tropical – in Miami; from muck-and-slush puddle, river, and ocean to that “obstinate life in the ocean” of the
Andrea Read Issue #134 October 2022
Timothy Liu reviews new books from Lynn Xu and Michael Chang
I’m a fan of well-printed books. Handmade. Letter press.
Timothy Liu Issue #133 September 2022
Jane Zwart reviews “Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking” by C.T. Salazar
One of the great, disorienting pleasures of C.T. Salazar’s first full-length collection of poems is how little level ground it contains.
Jane Zwart Issue #132 August 2022
David Baker’s “Whale Fall” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
If in W.S. Merwin’s “For a Coming Extinction” the whales are on their way “to The End,”
Chelsea Wagenaar Issue #131 July 2022
Lesley Wheeler’s “Poetry’s Possible Worlds” reviewed by Jane Zwart
In poetry and prose, Lesley Wheeler contends, “the ratio of sound to sense is different.”
Jane Zwart Issue #130 June 2022
distant transit by Maya Haderlap reviewed by Mark Wagenaar
“…is there a zone of darkness between all language, / a black river that swallows words / and stories and transforms them?”
Mark Wagenaar Issue #129 May 2022

Book Reviews

“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

Humor and Grace in The Survival Expo by Caki Wilkinson reviewed by Barbara Murphy

THE SOUND BOAT by Judith Vollmer reviewed by Linda Johnston Muhlhausen

The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds by Orlando Ricardo Menes reviewed by Andrea Read

Timothy Liu reviews new books from Lynn Xu and Michael Chang

Jane Zwart reviews “Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking” by C.T. Salazar

David Baker’s “Whale Fall” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar

Lesley Wheeler’s “Poetry’s Possible Worlds” reviewed by Jane Zwart

distant transit by Maya Haderlap reviewed by Mark Wagenaar