by prfire | Jun 13, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The Vagaries of Love, its Loss and Renewals, Replenishment of the Self In Little Wildheart, Micheline Maylor writes poems that chart the vagaries of love, its cycles of loss and renewal, followed by a realization about the joy and freedom in reinhabiting the self...
by prfire | Jun 1, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Christopher Gudgeon’s Assdeep in Wonder weds a raw, intense emotionalism to a wry, detached cynicism. Gudgeon effects a lot through his overarching tone, and it is easy to see some of his tactics at work in “The Causes of Heterosexuality”: Scientists have...
by prfire | May 2, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
The cover of Jamali Rad’s book depicts a building and an outdoor courtyard with slab benches. The structures, composed of concrete, appear stark and cold; the building is windowless and the only opening shown resembles a black, cave-like entrance. What is beyond this...
by prfire | Apr 3, 2017 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Angeline Schellenberg’s debut collection of poetry concerns raising children on the autism spectrum. The Winnipeg author explores broad topics such as the conflicting and complex emotions of parenthood and how the responsibility of the situation, and its demands,...
by prfire | Dec 1, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Dennis Cooley’s The Home Place: Robert Kroetsch, Uninvention, AND Poetic Aposiopesis “What else are we to do with his professions of unknowing…?” (287) Dennis Cooley has written a remarkable monograph on Robert Kroetsch that focuses primarily...
by prfire | Aug 4, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
It might seem that Mark Frutkin takes no risks in his fluid and lyric collection Hermit Thrush, but listen closer and you’ll hear the ominous vibration of a thrumming string. The risk Frutkin takes is to remind us that death comes for everyone. While this fact may...
