by prfire | Sep 24, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Hannah Godfrey is a formidable storyteller, so much so that even a thoroughly academic dissection of the vagus nerve becomes emotive prose in her chapbook Not For The World Would I Compare It To Anything. The ambitious collection of short stories and essays was...
by prfire | Aug 9, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Shirley Camia’s eleven spare, imagistic poems are so very slight—wispy, flickering at the edges of what children perceive and remember. Filled out by title pages, epigraph pages, and Cindy Mochizuki’s graceful, taut, drawings, they still make a very slim volume. The...
by prfire | Jun 22, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Written with searing clarity and massive heart, Slow War is narrative poetry at its best. The first collection from Benjamin Hertwig, a veteran of Afghanistan, it chronicles the experiences of an unnamed soldier. We follow this soldier as he’s primed for war, plunged...
by prfire | Jun 11, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
I first came to know Julie Paul as a storyteller. In The Jealousy Bone (Emdash Publishing, 2008) and The Pull of the Moon (Brindle & Glass, 2014), Paul drew readers into vividly wrought worlds populated by quirky yet utterly relatable characters who struggled to...
by prfire | May 30, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Listen. If is Douglas Barbour’s first book of poetry in over a decade and includes work that was produced over a twenty year period. That extended period of production has some interesting effects on the text. Poems like “The Age Demanding” which confronts the Iraq...
by prfire | May 17, 2018 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Poetry
Reading Lorna Crozier’s poetry is always a surprise and a delight, and the poet does not disappoint with her latest collection, What the Soul Doesn’t Want. She writes about growing old and the vulnerabilities which accompany aging. She writes about grief, about...
