Friday, July 15th, 2011
COMPENDIUM by Kristina Marie Darling
Review by Kyle McCord COMPENDIUM by Kristina Marie Darling Cow Heavy Books 22812 St. Joan Street Saint Clair Shores, MI 48080 2011, 52 pp., $12.00 www.cowheavybooks.com Typically, I try not to think too deeply about cover images and how they relate to a work. But when the book I’m preparing to read features a cover [...]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
WATER THE MOON by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Review by Kristina Marie Darling WATER THE MOON by Fiona Sze-Lorrain Marick Press P.O. Box 36253 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 2010, 78 pp., $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-934851-12-8 www.marickpress.com Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s stunning debut collection of verse, Water the Moon, explores the intersection of personal experience and artistic tradition. By presenting snapshots of contemporary life alongside the [...]
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
IT WAS A TERRIBLE CLOUD AT TWILIGHT by Alessandra Lynch
Review by Kristina Marie Darling IT WAS A TERRIBLE CLOUD AT TWILIGHT by Alessandra Lynch LSU Press Building 3005 8000 GSRI Road Baton Rouge, LA 70820 ISBN 978-0-8071-3346-0 2008, 73pp., $16.95 www.lsu.edu/lsupress In her second book of poems, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch offers readers a complex understanding of childhood, in [...]
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
BEHIND MY EYES by Li-Young
Review by Kristina Marie Darling BEHIND MY EYES by Li-Young Lee W.W. Norton and Company 500 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10110 ISBN: 978-0-393-06542-8 144 pp., $24.95 www.wwnorton.com In Li-Young Lee’s Behind My Eyes, hieroglyphs collide head-on with parables, burning books, and “breath to fan the fire’s nest,” setting the stage for an elegant collection [...]
