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Stick Tight Man by Jim Lally

30 January, 2010 от Sheri Wright · No comments

Sheri Wright

Jim Lally’s love of earth is presented to us quietly, deeply, much like his description of a Quaker gathering in his poem At The Quaker Meeting. This book shows us that we can live in a balanced way with our surroundings, with each other and that change does not require coercion, that it is [...]

Silver Carts and Watermelon Seeds: How Image Creates Mood in Two Poems by Kathleen Driskell

27 December, 2009 от bgeorge · No comments

Barry George

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In the poems throughout Seed Across Snow, Kathleen Driskell’s careful attention to details creates the feeling of a heightened attentiveness to life. Nowhere is this more evident than in two of her poems about motherhood, “Why I Mother You the Way I Do” and “Seed.” In these two compelling poems, Driskell [...]

Review of Molly Peacock’s Second Blush

3 May, 2009 от Drew · No comments

Drew Logan

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I encountered Molly Peacock for the first time years ago on a bus in downtown Manhattan. She was driving. No! No! Please do not think she was driving the bus. There was a placard on the interior wall of the bus above the seats where they normally put advertising. It had a poem [...]

Petja Heinrich on Square 01: Crosswords of Metaphors

5 December, 2008 от Ellie Ivanova Ponti · 2 comments

Ellie Ivanova Ponti

Petja Heinrich is a journalist, linguist and writer. Her first book of poetry in Bulgarian is to be presented in Sofia on December 6, 2008.
She is an editor for the German-language edition of Public Republic.