Luisa brings her signature sharp, shrewd, exquisite language about her personal and family histories and marks how immigration leads to world-wide revolution.
Ren’s latest poetic collection The Elephants Have Been Singing All Along showcases different phases through which a body goes and tends to suffer and enjoy the various elements
Steen’s Dream Passages leaves behind a vivid description of nature, home, beach, window and garden. The poems include impressions of common household items which adds more simplicity and relatability to the reading.
Christina’s debut collection “To the Man in the Red Suit” shows a cavernous world of darkness and the aftermath of a father’s suicide.
They are an assembly of words called on to negotiate the fine line between succumbing to life’s onslaughts and prevailing over them.
Steen writes gripping, thrilling poems in this thoughtful collection. It’s everything you’d want in a poetry book. His lines get under your skin as if he gets how you really feel.
A number of the early items predate even Deformity Lover, some of them thought lost until recently.
I freely admit that there’s much modern poetry that I don’t understand. A lot of it is probably very good and profound, I’m just not smart enough to appreciate it. So it was with some trepidation that I began reading A Fine Line, a collection of poetry by Australian writer Dianne Bates.
Felice Picano has written over thirty books, mostly novels, short story collections, memoir, even some plays and screenplays, but Songs and Poems is his first poetry collection since The Deformity Lover and Other Poems (1977).
Would Land, the latest poetry poetic collection of Jill Alexander Essbaum is a final impression of a quite extraordinary combination of creative and critical power, of passion and thought.