Sunday, May 15th, 2011
THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS by James Maughn
Review by James Benton THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS by James Maughn Black Radish Books ISBN-13 978-0982573167 2011, 120 pp., $15.00 www.blackradishbooks.org Drawing from his training in the martial arts, and building on his earlier work, Kata, Maughn creates poems simultaneously energetic and spare in a challenging, extended exploration of, in his words, “the connections and intersections [...]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
SUCK ON THE MARROW by Camille T. Dungy
Review by James Benton SUCK ON THE MARROW by Camille T. Dungy Red Hen Press P.O. Box 40820 Pasadena, CA 91114 ISBN 978-1-59709-468-9 2010, 88 pp., $18.95 www.redhen.org I love these poems. I am conflicted by them. On the one hand, they reveal and pay tribute to the human sorrow created by an old and, [...]
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
ELEANOR, ELEANOR, NOT YOUR REAL NAME by Kathryn Cowles
Review by James Benton ELEANOR, ELEANOR, NOT YOUR REAL NAME by Kathryn Cowles Bear Star Press 185 Hollow Oak Drive Cohasset, CA 95973 ISBN 9780979374517 2008, 88 pp., $16.00 http://www.bearstarpress.com Kathryn Cowles (her real name) challenges our assumptions of identity and constancy in an inconstant world in an engaging book of lyrical poems that are [...]
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
ARRANGING THE BLAZE by Chad Sweeney
Review by James Benton ARRANGING THE BLAZE by Chad Sweeney Anhinga Press P.O. Box 10595 Tallahassee, FL 32302 ISBN 978-1-934695-09-8 2009, 106 pp., $15.00 www.anhinga.org Genealogy arises from the urge to uncover one’s origins. In Chad Sweeney’s hands, the search for origins permeates a stirring collection of angular poems that are simultaneously personal and deceptively [...]
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
SHE DANCES LIKE MUSSOLINI by David James
Review by James Benton SHE DANCES LIKE MUSSOLINI by David James March Street Press 3413 Wilshire Greensboro, NC 27408 ISBN 1-59661-105-7 2009, 60 pp., $15.00 marchstreetpress.com Imagine those famous paintings of dogs playing poker. Now imagine the kind of person who hangs those paintings on the wall of his man-cave, not because he thinks of [...]
