Reviews & Interviews

Blitzkreig By John Gosslee Rain Mountain Press 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0989705110 70 pages The tree lay down on the garage roof and stretched. You have your heaven, it said, go to it. –William Carlos Williams, The Hurricane Maybe World War II ends earlier if white lab-coated William Carlos Williams scrawls “The Hurricane” longhand on the back [...]

Easy Math: Poems, Lauren Shapiro, Sarabande Books (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry), pp. 65, $14.95, February 2013. Reading Easy Math by Lauren Shapiro is like being invited to an outrageous party where “the only escape/is realizing you’re already there.” It’s a come-as-you-are party, so readers are encouraged to show up with tousled hair, wearing…

Butch Geography by Stacey Waite Tupelo Press ISBN: 978-1-937797-25-7 Paperback, $16.95, 72p “God made gender a plaything.”—Stacey Waite Butch Geography is the first full-length book of poetry from Stacey Waite, award-winning author of three chapbooks and assistant professor of gender studies and creative writing at the University of Nebraska. The poems of Butch Geography explore [...]

In Caroline Knox’s nimble new collection Flemish, a poem entitled simply “They” begins: “They live in a mobile home/made of Adobe Caslon.” The elided antecedent here could very well be Knox’s poems; while maintaining a healthy awareness of themselves as constructed objects (“black and white graphic art,” Knox has called them), they simultaneously feel in [...]

Poems are “instruments for thinking” (Allen Grossman). The object of a poet’s thought, however, is often unstated–especially in lyric poetry. Lyric poetry never speaks to an audience, and so–as it is when we are alone–the speaker does not feel compelled to explicitly state the object of thought but only the thoughts themselves. In this review, [...]

The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from poet Katharine Coles. Katharine reads . Share this: Related Posts Interview with Michael Homolka [AUDIO] Interview with Michelle Bitting [AUDIO] Interview with Woody Brown [AUDIO]March 7, 2013 Interview with Kelli Russell Agodon [AUDIO] Interview with Neil Shepard [AUDIO]

The Mimic Sea By Erica Bernheim 42 Miles Press, 2012 ISBN 978-0983074724’ I hope the Monarch butterfly I released this spring landed in Mexico tagged with the ending line of the opening poem of Erica Bernheim’s Moonrats: I’ve got rights and I should look into them. This is the fewest of the “first books” I’ve [...]