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, the persona can be seen in stanzas, like the [...]
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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 and sucked the life out of his people. Only [...]
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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. Reading a poem can be a moment of pleasure [...]
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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 her sister, Debbie Vinograd. Both Vinograds are portrait artists: [...]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
WILD WEST by Judith Rechter
Review by Mary Meriam
WILD WEST
by Judith Rechter
RAW ArT PRESS
ISBN 978-0-9729185-4-1
2007, 64 pp., $12.00
www.rawartpress.com
Life is a perilous balancing act. In a flash, the comforts we cling to can be stripped away. Judith Rechter’s book of poems, Wild West, is a wild ride through the perilous world. Animals and people are lost, fallen, chomped, bleeding, beaten, dead, [...]
