Book Reviews

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
Adam Vines’ “Lures” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
If you read all of Adam Vines’s new collection, "Lures", and at the end of the book close your eyes and try to picture in your mind’s eye the book’s signature image
Chelsea Wagenaar Issue #128 April 2022
Brian Culhane’s “Remembering Lethe” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar
Brian Culhane’s Remembering Lethe is remarkably, refreshingly cohesive.
Chelsea Wagenaar Issue #127 March 2022
Zeeshan Khan Pathan’s “The Minister of Disturbances” and Allison Joseph’s “Lexicon” reviewed by Mark Wagenaar
The poems in The Minister of Disturbances have a wide variety of settings, and jump around the globe
Mark Wagenaar Issue #126 February 2022
Carmine Starnino’s ‘Dirty Words’ reviewed by Mark Wagenaar
For this month’s installment, I thought I’d wander a little farther afield—a little farther north
Mark Wagenaar Issue #125 January 2022
Devon Walker-Figueroa’s Philomath reviewed by Jeri Theriault
Philomath by Devon Walker-Figueroa Milkweed Editions paperback 104 pages ISBN: 978-1-57131-522-9 The poems in Philomath, Devon Walker-Figueroa’s 2021 National Poetry Series collection, evoke her origins in western Oregon, a landscape suggested in the cover art by Erik Larson, a stark woodcut of tree rings on a decayed stump. As she revisits the farmlands and vineyards of King’s
Jeri Theriault Plume Issue #124 December 2021

Book Reviews

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

Adam Vines’ “Lures” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar

Brian Culhane’s “Remembering Lethe” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar

Zeeshan Khan Pathan’s “The Minister of Disturbances” and Allison Joseph’s “Lexicon” reviewed by Mark Wagenaar

Carmine Starnino’s ‘Dirty Words’ reviewed by Mark Wagenaar

Devon Walker-Figueroa’s Philomath reviewed by Jeri Theriault