Jim Kates
The poems in this remarkable collection lead us, as all good literature should do, after all the appearances and misdirections, feints and antic dispositions, to nothing but ourselves.
This is a grim and uncomfortable book to read because it forces us to contemplate each small poem separately and then take them all together, a hard but necessary exercise.
Underlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.
In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.
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.
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