Jim Kates
Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.
Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,
A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
Russian 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.
Translator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”
Literate 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.
The strength of Roundabout of Death lies in its credibility, and in a specificity that defies detail.
It 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.
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