Sunday, April 25th, 2010
BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE by Yakov Azriel
Review by Mary Harwell Sayler BEADS FOR THE MESSIAH’S BRIDE: POEMS ON LEVITICUS by Yakov Azriel Time Being Books 10411 Clayton Road St. Louis, Missouri 63131 ISBN 978-156809-128-0 2009, 118 pp., $15.95 www.timebeing.com As a lifelong lover of the Bible and an almost lifelong writer of religious poems from a Judeo-Christian perspective, I’ve been especially [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
DUST AND BREAD by Stephen Haven
Review by Mary Sayler DUST AND BREAD by Stephen Haven Turning Point P.O. Box 541106 Cincinnati, Ohio 45254-1106 ISBN 978-1932339024 2008, 100 pp., $17.00 www.turningpointbooks.com Conventional wisdom in reading and writing contemporary poetry consistently encourages us to enter into the experience of a poem, so that’s what I aimed to do in reading Dust and [...]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
SHARP STARS by Sharon Bryan
Review by Mary Harwell Sayler SHARP STARS by Sharon Bryan BOA Editions 250 North Goodman Street Suite 306 Rochester, New York 14607 ISBN 978-1-934414-28-6 2009, 102 pp., $16.00 www.boaeditions.org Sharp wit, infinite energy, delightful word plays, and luminous insights shine in Sharp Stars by Sharon Bryan. Not surprisingly, the book opens with a big bang [...]
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
WILD FLIGHT by Christine Rhein
Review by Mary Harwell Sayler WILD FLIGHT by Christine Rhein Texas Tech University Press Box 41037 Lubbock, Texas 79409-1037 ISBN-13 978-0896726215 2009, 103 pp., $l6.95 www.ttup.ttu.edu This first book of poetry by Christine Rhein drew me to write my first poetry book review, unless you count the quickies I sometimes post on Amazon. Other drawing [...]
