Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
“Virginia” by Ted Gilley
Ted Gilley VIRGINIA Of my sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Smith, I remember imperfectly some details: his face, perhaps, was paper-white and his hands delicate as shells, and that he settled these deep in the pockets of a dark topcoat; that he drove a black Studebaker, was graduated from a teachers’ college in the deeper South, that [...]
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Niki Nymark
Review by Ted Gilley A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Niki Nymark Cherry Pie Press P.O. Box 155 Glen Carbon, IL 62034 ISBN 978-0-9748468-7-3 2008, $10.00 http://cherrypiepress.blogspot.com In A Stranger Here Myself, Niki Nymark endeavors to convince us, as poets will, that life is a serious business, and while the reader may enjoy her judicious (but [...]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
ALSO IN ARCADIA by Andrew Mulvania
Review by Ted Gilley ALSO IN ARCADIA by Andrew Mulvania Backwaters Press 3502 North 52nd St. Omaha, NE 68104-3506 ISBN 978-0-9816936-3-7 2008, 67 pp., $16.00 http://thebackwaterspress.com/ Andrew Mulvania’s present-day Arcadia lies in the southern part of the United States, just as the Arcadia of legend lay, similarly isolated, in the Peloponnesus of Greece. Rural Missouri, [...]
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
EXCHANGING LIVES by Damon McLaughlin
Review by Ted Gilley EXCHANGING LIVES by Damon McLaughlin Backwaters Press 3502 North 52nd St. Omaha, NE 68104-3506 ISBN 0979393485 2008, 71 pp., $16.00 www.thebackwaterspress.com The opening pages of Damon McLaughlin’s Exchanging Lives carries a quote by Hermann Hesse, author of the novels Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, among others: “What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb [...]
