Poet Joan Myles follows through with a second collection, One Glittering Wing, following the author’s first collection, One With Willows © 2019. As we become more acquainted with the author,…
Category: Poetry
The Road-Shaped Heart
Free verse doesn’t always instantiate the freedom of voice carried within its lines. Not so with Nick Purdon. The Road-Shaped Heart (Modern History Press, 2011). The poet from South African…
American Elegies
“Hype over substance” is the new American motto as readers are told in the prolegomenon of American Elegies (World Audience Publishers, 2008). The poet, Louis Phillips, has mourned this degradation…
Whose Cries are Not Music
Nature, emotions, and life – all define Linda Benninghoff’s poetry, which has the immediacy of observation as well as constant invitation to thought and consideration. Of her latest poetry collection…
Chinese Blackbird
Sherry Quan Lee’s poetry is mainly focused on ethnic experience as an Asian/African-American living in America. Her poetry book Chinese Blackbird (Modern History Press, 2008) bears close similarity in theme…
Cats Creep the Fire To Art
In his latest book of collected poems Cats Creep the Fire to Art (World Audience Publishers, 2008), Matthew Ward has strummed a personal note on various aspects of human life…
How to Write a Suicide Note
In an exceptionally daring work of cultural criticism and probe into multicultural identity, Sherry Quan Lee takes her readers to the roots of emotional trauma experienced by a woman of…
An Insomniac’s Dream
Kelly Moran’s An Insomniac’s Dream (Publish America, December 2005) is just the kind of book that matches its title throughout its content and style – a half-dreamy mode of story-telling,…
The Book of Life
The Book of Life by Chinese poet and philosopher Ronnie Lee is the first among a series of books that the author has scribed on the subject of existential philosophy…
The Spaces Between Things
The latest collection of Linda Benninghoff’s poems is here under the title The Spaces Between Things (erbacce-press, Liverpool, 2008). Like her previous chapbook departures, this collection brings memories of childhood,…
departures
Linda Benninghoff’s departures (March Street Press, North Carolina, 2004) is a chapbook of 19 poems, along with some images, that are themed on the feelings connected with the act of…
Unscrambled Eggs
If a book is short and carries choice verse, few would leave it to a second sitting. Miami author Nadia Brown instantiates this assertion in her first book of poetry…