by Helen Ivory | Nov 17, 2013 | Reviews
A Poet’s Journey of Abandonment, Near-Death – and Recovery. This is a second collection of poems by the Iowa-born poet who has lived in St. Paul the last three decades or so. Not just living,...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 7, 2013 | Reviews
‘Ordinary lives are not for us’, a truth born out in this blatantly autobiographical collection, in which Pope is both the custodian of her extraordinary family history whilst...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 28, 2013 | Reviews
This poet was born in July 1943 in New York State and so will soon be 70. For graduate school, McCullough moved to Iowa City, Iowa, where he earned his M. F. A. degree...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2013 | Reviews
The poems and short prose passages in this collection carry a charge, they’re alive with verbal electricity and a sense of the purpose defined by their authors in “Coda Prefix: Accelerated Urban Highs”,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 6, 2013 | Reviews
Linda Black, who has already planted her feet firmly in the prose poem and experimental writing camp having previously delivered two books of prose poems (published by Shearsman) delivers a pamphlet...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 29, 2013 | Reviews
Lessons in Geography and Anatomy Dorothy Smith and others have contributed to our understanding of the standpoint, a theory which goes some distance in explaining why contemporary writers seem better at adopting a multiplicity of perspective in their work. Diaspora...
