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Jim Kates

Poetry Review: The Word-Whipped Verse of “Flame in a Stable”

Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Arrowsmith Press, Flame in a Stable, Jim Kates, Martin Edmunds

Book Review: “Walk With Me” — The Heroism of Fannie Lou Hamer

A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Fannie Lou Hamer, Jim Kates, Kate Clifford Larson., Oxford University Press

Poetry Review: Ruth Lepson’s “on the way” — Basking in the Glow

Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jim Kates, on the way: new and selected poems, Poetry, Ruth Lepson

Book Review: “What Strange Paradise” — Unforgettable

Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jim Kates, Merchant of Venice, Omar El Akkad, What a Strange Paradise

Poetry Review: “Black Earth” — The Irresistible Appeal of Poet Osip Mandelstam

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.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Black Earth, Jim Kates, Osip Mandelstam, Peter France, Russian poetry

Theater Commentary: Is It the Right Time for “Our Town”?

These days, I’m not in a mood to be comforted in the theater by either toasting or roasting chestnuts.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Jim Kates, Les Blancs, Our Town, Peterborough Players

Poetry Review: Maureen N. McLane’s “More Anon” — Lots of Existential Fun

Her poems are sassy.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Farrar Straus and Giroux, Jim Kates, Maureen N. McLane, More Anon, Poetry

Poetry Review: “Beowulf & Beyond” — A Rousing Night Out with Old English

Translator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Beowulf & Beyond, Dan Veach, Jim Kates, Lockwood Press

Book Review: “In Memory of Memory” — Riven Recollections

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.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: In Memory of Memory, Jim Kates, Maria Stepanova, New-Directions

Poetry Review: Paul Celan — The Anguish of Writing in a “Damaged” Tongue

Poet Paul Celan has come to embody in person and in print the agonies of a half century of European culture.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jim Kates, Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, Paul Celan, Pierre Joris, Poetry

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