This staunchly eclectic collection is also fiercely focused, unified by the fact that regardless of the subject, the poet never blinks, never looks away, never hesitates to name the pain.
J Kates
Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead
This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.
Poetry Review: “The Briar Patch” — Crafty Poems, Accomplished and Sly
Poems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. J. Kates’s technique is alive and various throughout.