Jim Kates
Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
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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.
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Translator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”
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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.
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The strength of Roundabout of Death lies in its credibility, and in a specificity that defies detail.
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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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It 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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The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.
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Poet Paul Celan has come to embody in person and in print the agonies of a half century of European culture.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else