Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
“The Venturi Effect” by Donald Mace Williams
Donald Mace Williams THE VENTURI EFFECT You may have thought, from visiting art shows, that canyons squeezed together on their way downstream. No. That’s only perspective. They in fact, as any hiker my age knows, spread out and vanish. Their canyonness goes. Their vital currents pool up, slacken, splay, their tall red hoodoos melt into [...]
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
MELOPOEIA by Rhina P. Espaillat, Alfred Nicol and John Tavano
Review by Donald Mace Williams MELOPOEIA by Rhina P. Espaillat, Alfred Nicol, and John Tavano Rhina Espaillat 12 Charron Drive Newburyport, MA 01950 ASIN: B002Q76ZOK 2009, $15.00 www.amazon.com My Greek lexicon translates “melopoeia” as “a making of lyric poems or music.” In brief notes accompanying this CD, Rhina Espaillat says that in melopoeia the poetry [...]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
HER PLACE IN THESE DESIGNS by Rhina P. Espaillat
Review by Donald Mace Williams HER PLACE IN THESE DESIGNS by Rhina P. Espaillat Truman State University Press 100 E. Normal St. Kirksville, MO 63501-4221 ISBN: 978-1-931112-89-5 2008, 91 pp., $15.95 http://tsup.truman.edu If this book is feminist, as its name and the beautiful cover sculpture of a nude woman (by the poet’s husband, Alfred Moskowitz) [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
from “Wolfe” by Donald Mace Williams
Donald Mace Williams WOLFE Tha com of more under misthleoþum Grendel gongan, Godes yrre bær. —Beowulf (Then came from the moor under the mist-cliffs Grendel stalking, God’s ire he bore.) When he arrived at the cave or den, the hunter took a short candle in one hand, his six-shooter in the other, wiggled into the [...]
