Where the Sunflowers Have Pointed
“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
All posts filed under: Book Reviews
Longform reviews of poetry books.
A Denser Shade
“A good book of scholarship suggests where scholarship could go next. And with Roethke, what comes next is often return.” —Zach Savich
Embodied Placements
“Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity.”
Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields
“At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy.”
A Hexagon of Green and Violet Stars
A review of Derek Sheffield’s Not For Luck
Fragments, Omissions & Further Reading
A Review of Susan Howe’s Concordance by Susan Stringfellow
Lips that Kissed Lips
The Elasticity of the Sonnet in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
The Territories of Our Spirit
A Review of Carlos Sirah’s The High Alive: An Epic Hoodoo Diptych
Shame’s Blade
A Review of Leila Chatti’s Deluge
The Loving Mimicry of a Mark Leidner Universe
A review of Returning the Sword to the Stone