Merrill Kaitz

Poetry Review: Marcia Karp’s “If By Song” — Verse Passionate and Unruly

This is a volume filled with complex pleasures and pains, assembled with purpose.

Comparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.

What could have been excursions into monochromatic despair are elevated, through resourceful inventiveness, into exhilarating journeys.

John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.

Daniel Gewertz January 26, 2022 at 6:39 pm on Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently PessimisticIt may be labeled a movie review, but it is clear from the pull-quote at the start to the multiple...
Daniel Gewertz January 26, 2022 at 2:14 pm on Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?Upon seeing parts 3 & 4, I felt the series grew increasingly more dishonest and extreme, and my review now...
Daniel Gewertz January 26, 2022 at 1:18 pm on Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?Interesting details about Joltin' Joe Dimaggio! (And let's hope he didn't do any joltin' with MM!) I do recall he...
Daniel Gewertz January 26, 2022 at 12:59 pm on Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?With most cable connections, I think the full CNN series should be available.
Daniel Gewertz January 26, 2022 at 12:50 pm on Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?The line you obviously thought was over-the-line may have been edgy, but it wasn't lunkheaded. I know about the extreme...