In his new book, poet Charles Simic employs his customary strategies, but he seldom achieves the intensity he once did.
Ed Meek
Poetry Review: “Frozen Charlotte” — Plenty of Pleasure
In Frozen Charlotte, Susan de Sola provides readers with enough aesthetic pleasure and thoughtful commentary about today’s world to remind us of just how good — and necessary — poetry can be.
Book Review: “Uninhabitable Earth” — Incentivizing Survival
We will find out how much the future of the earth matters in the next Presidential election.
Poetry Commentary: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100 — The Beats Go On
The Beats came before the ’60s, the decade of civil rights protests, women’s rights, the anti-war movement, and the civil strife that included riots and assassinations.
Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?
America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.
Book Review: “The Mars Room” — Women Behind Bars
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
Poetry Review: The Devolution of Eileen Myles
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
Poetry Review: A.E. Stallings’ “Like” — Good and Clever
Despite its occasional confusions, this is poetry I will return to — to re-experience A.E. Stallings’ wit, wisdom, and word-smithing.
Poetry Review: “Not Elegy, But Eros” — A Skilled New Voice
Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.
Book Review: “Enlightenment Now” — An Antidote for our Pessimistic Era
Steven Pinker’s book is a welcome antidote to the Trump era, when we are inundated, daily, with an avalanche of negative and disturbing stories.