Hooked Through studies violence—of suicide, of nature, of our “possum heart,” of our “last days.” Anything can destroy, deconstruct, or devour the body—teeth, tongues, bullets, bugs, the… Read more “Hooked Through–Sara Wagner”
Seven Miles Deep–Pamela Garvey
Pam Garvey’s exceptional book Seven Miles Deep is a catalogue of damages described with great precision, honesty, bravery, and beauty. Just as Akhmatova said Yes, I can,… Read more “Seven Miles Deep–Pamela Garvey”
Orange, Dreaming–K.T. Landon
Furious beating. In many ways that is what great poetry is, and that is what we find in KT Landon’s marvelous first book. Furious beating because poetry… Read more “Orange, Dreaming–K.T. Landon”
Hard Inheritance–John Davis, Jr.
The poems in Hard Inheritance are set firmly in the poet’s “ancestral terrain” of small-town Florida. The landscape is lovingly but unsentimentally brought to the page, and… Read more “Hard Inheritance–John Davis, Jr.”
Rapunzel’s Braid–Beau Boudreaux
Boudreaux has a dazzling capacity for sudden imagistic insights: “like plucking a camellia from a neighbor’s tree,” “turned paradise by twilight,” “a sultan with a taped wood… Read more “Rapunzel’s Braid–Beau Boudreaux”
The Night I Quit Flossing–Tracy Mishkin
Tracy Mishkin’s poetry collection, The Night I Quit Flossing, celebrates the wonder of being alive when faced with the frailty of health and the fragility of human… Read more “The Night I Quit Flossing–Tracy Mishkin”
When You Escape–Sally Zakariya
Escape with Sally Zakariya to an Edward Hopper truck stop in Topeka. Wear a yellow dress the color of Kansas corn. Tie an apron snug around your… Read more “When You Escape–Sally Zakariya”
