Saturday, July 31st, 2010
“The Romance of Middle Age” by Mary Meriam
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Mary Meriam THE ROMANCE OF MIDDLE AGE Now that I’m fifty, let me take my showers at night, no light, eyes closed. And let me swim in cover-ups. My skin’s tattooed with hours and days and decades, head to foot, and slim is just a faded photograph. It’s [...]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
EASY MARKS by Gail White
Review by Mary Meriam EASY MARKS by Gail White David Robert Books PO Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN 978-1934999066 2008, 80 pp., $17.00 www.davidrobertbooks.com Encountering a poet and her book of poems for the first time, I find myself fascinated by the slow emergence of the book’s persona. In a book of formalist poems, [...]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
RHYTHM AND BOOZE by Julie Kane
Review by Mary Meriam RHYTHM AND BOOZE by Julie Kane University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820-6903 ISBN 978-0-252-07140-9 2003, 88 pp., $14.95 http://www.press.uillinois.edu/ Once upon a time, there was a powerful ruler called King Booze. Almost all the people were in thrall to King Booze, who was vicious and bloodthirsty [...]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
BUNDLE O’ TINDER by Rose Kelleher
Review by Mary Meriam BUNDLE O’ TINDER by Rose Kelleher The Waywiser Press P.O. Box 6025 Baltimore, MD 21206 ISBN: 978-1904130-33-8 2008, 88 pp., £7.99 www.waywiser-press.com Why do we read poems? Poems can be songs, prayers, chronicles, confessions, memories, meditations, complaints, portraits. Poems give us contact with the world and help us feel less alone. [...]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
AMERICA IS HIDING UNDER MY BED by Julia Vinograd
Review by Mary Meriam AMERICA IS HIDING UNDER MY BED by Julia Vinograd Zeitgeist Press 1630 University Avenue #34 Berkeley, CA 94703 ISBN 0-929730-84-x 2008, 70 pp., $8.95 www.zeitgeist-press.com The cover of Julia Vinograd’s new book of poems, America Is Hiding Under My Bed, is graced by a lively, loving portrait of Julia, painted by [...]
