The Plain Became My Hunger’s Home
“The body and the land mirror each other in their growth and development, in their ability to be beautifully reset and be born from last year’s ‘undue shrubbery.'” – Cass Garison
Longform reviews of poetry books.
“The body and the land mirror each other in their growth and development, in their ability to be beautifully reset and be born from last year’s ‘undue shrubbery.'” – Cass Garison
“H of H Playbook is a submission to our collective conscience, a treatise against empire, and a reminder that there is no myth nor story that can replace actual, material human experience.” – Dujie Tahat
“Each of these books carries with it this breath of endurance — that life is spectacularly painful, and each day our choices work toward some method of minimizing this pain.” – Cody Stetzel
“A good book of scholarship suggests where scholarship could go next. And with Roethke, what comes next is often return.” —Zach Savich
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
“At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy.”
A review of Derek Sheffield’s Not For Luck
A Review of Susan Howe’s Concordance by Susan Stringfellow
The Elasticity of the Sonnet in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
A Review of Carlos Sirah’s The High Alive: An Epic Hoodoo Diptych