Jim Kates
Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,
Read MoreA three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
Read MoreRuth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
Read MoreRun, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
Read MoreRussian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.
Read MoreTranslator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”
Read MoreLiterate people in the state will be familiar with this story, but it may come as a revelation to those whose Mississippi is limited to a cultural Bermuda Triangle on whose sharp angles sit William Faulkner, John Grisham, and Oprah Winfrey.
Read MoreThe strength of Roundabout of Death lies in its credibility, and in a specificity that defies detail.
Read MoreIt is always a pleasure to read the poems of a writer who has an ear for language and an eye for form, a voice of their own, and an interest in a world beyond the reach of their own person.
Read MoreIt is the loss of memories and the meaning of memory that dominate, generating speculations that draw the reader into and through Maria Stepanova’s argument and interpretations.
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