I’ve just added two new reviews to the blog, by Joe Hall and Mike Maggio, respectively, with a couple more to follow (including titles from Catfish Press and Black Ocean) in the coming weeks. Past reviews can be viewed by clicking on the “Phoebe Poetry Reviews” link in the left sidebar. Publishing reviews here...
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Archive for March, 2008
NEW REVIEWS!
City of Regret – Andrew Kozma
Zone 3 Press, 2007 Paperback. 74 pgs. Review by Joe Hall Finding love amidst the grief caused by a father’s death, the poems in Kozma’s first book are shaped by these most elemental, turbulent emotions. Some of his best poems place us within a landscape scored beyond recognition by this grief. It isn’t surreal,...
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Existential Poetics: When a Poem is Just a Poem
A Review of Noah Eli Gordon’s A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow New Issues Press, 2007 Paperback. 98 pgs. Review by Mike Maggio In a recent interview with Rain Taxi, Noah Eli Gordon was asked about the accessibility of a poetry whose meaning is inherently elusive to the reader. Gordon’s poetry,...
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