It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
Books
Book Review: “The Stakes” — For America, Higher Than You Think
For America to get back on track, “It will take inspired radical leadership, mass organizing, and citizen mobilization of the kind that we see only in America’s finest hours.”
Book Review: “Becoming a Man” — The Roller-Coaster of Transition
I would have preferred a more reflective, in-depth account of becoming a man in 2020, but Becoming A Man is an informative, fast, and fascinating read.
Book Review: Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” — A Bemused Candor
What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash
We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.
Book Review: “Were We Awake” — Speculating in the Dark
L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.
Book Review: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars — Protecting the Sacred Value of Time
Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.
Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”
José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.
Book Review: “Rocking the Closet” — Queering the Mainstream
Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.
Book Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — The Most Un-Hip Woman Imaginable, and Proud of It.
If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”