by Josh English Drunk on Mystery: a review of Jeffrey Skinner’s Sober Ghost Jeffrey Skinner is among the country’s most vital living poets; his forty-some years of publishing represent American surrealism at its most charming and spiritual, his suburban landscapes infused with a soulfulness and fever that is pure Americana. However, in his newest book, […]
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by Samantha Leon Richard Blanco’s Homeland of My Body is a Call Back to Our Humanity Reflection gives way to reinvention in Blanco’s nearly two-hundred-page volume of new and collected poems. Ever-generous, Blanco gives the reader broad access to his best works with over one hundred pieces that call back to the poet’s origins and […]
by Steve Wing Pilgrim My friend Cary once remarked that back in the ‘70s I’d occasionally declare a desire to make love to the Earth itself. I remembered having that notion, but hadn’t quite realized I’d ever said anything about it out loud (though people were making proclamations right and left in those days.) Maybe […]
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Praise for Catechesis: A Postpastoral
Collection Title: Catechesis: A Postpastoral Collection Author: Lindsay Lusby Reviewer: Lily Starr It is not often that I open a collection of poetry and am immediately stunned by vivid, color photos of flora, diagrams of human bones, a family of black and white sheep clustered together on the bottom of a page, or pink […]
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