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Nice and Loud by Lois Rosen Tebot Bach, 2015, $16.00 Reviewed by Susan Clayton Goldner Nice and Loud, a collection of beautifully crafted poetry by Lois Rosen, is authentic and yet tender. It is intimate, unselfconscious and introspective. Her story takes the reader into the world of a young Jewish girl growing up in a cramped,
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a question of mortality by Susan Clayton Goldner Wellstone Press 2014 $15.00 Reviewed by Lois Rosen I first had the joy of meeting Susan Clayton-Goldner at a novel-writing workshop led by Marjorie Reynolds in Portland, Oregon years ago. Susan shone as an astute critic and author of family-centered mystery novels. She’s published three: Finding a Way
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Avenida Uriburu by Michael Hanner Chandelier Galaxy Books, 2015 Available on Amazon.com for $6.00 plus s & h Reviewed by Sara Burant Perhaps not coincidentally I was reading Avenida Uriburu on a train. It was raining steadily. Outside, shapes and colors ran together. I forgot where I was then remembered a jacket I wore as
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Reviewed by Carolyn Martin Ocean’s Laughter by Tricia Knoll Kelsay Books, Aldrich Press Hemet, California ISBN: 13: 978-0692541852 2016, $17.00, 102 pages (on Amazon) triciaknoll.com twitter:@ triciaknollwind Those who know and love the Oregon Coast will experience a delightful shock of recognition while reading Tricia Knoll’s Ocean’s Laughter. This rich and varied collection about Manzanita
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Reviewed by Ann Staley Every Door Recklessly Ajar By Nancy Flynn Cayuga Lake Books, Ithaca, New York ISBN 9781681110356 2015, 72 pp., $12 (on Amazon) Nancy Flynn.com Nancy Flynn’s slender volume of poems is filled with joy and mystery, grief and remembrance. It is the home of many pleasures, beginning with the zany, And I Will
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Review by Ruthy Kanagy Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out Edited by Leah Stenson and Asao Sarukawa Aroldi Inkwater Press (Portland, Oregon) ISBN: 9781629010656 2014, 192pp., $14.95 3.11.11 is a date forever imprinted on the memories of Japanese and other persons who were in Japan on that fateful day. A massive tsunami launched
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Review by Carter McKenzie Anuk-Ité: Double-Face Woman, Poems By Dorothy Black Crow Turnstone Publishing (Corvallis, Oregon) ISBN: 9781479338580 2012, 39 pp., $9.90 (on Amazon) dorothyblackcrow.com The poems in Anuk-Ité: Double-Face Woman by Dorothy Black Crow demonstrate the skill and wisdom of balance; through deft understatement they achieve the resonance of cumulative effect: they are weavings
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Review by Lois Rosen High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari Barefoot Muse Press 2012 ISBN-13:978-615663760 Paperback: 40 pages Tiel Aisha Ansari’s poetry collection, High-Voltage Lines, lives up to its name. Like the conduits delivering strong electrical charges, sparking the air around them, her artful lines convey potent messages. Tiel treats the reader to a dazzling
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Review by Penelope Scambly Schott Just This, Tanka by Margaret Chula, Mountains and Rivers Press, 2013 92 pages, $16.00 Imagine there is someone standing in front of you with a lifted hand and upstretched fingers. Two fingers are presenting a delicate object in order for you to see it clearly. Listen as the person whispers to
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Review by Carolyn Martin Snow White, When No One Was Looking by Donna Prinzmetal CW Books, Cincinnati, OH, 2014 ISBN: 978-1625490841 2014, 84 pages, $16.20 Reading Donna Prinzmetal’s collection of persona poems, Snow White, When No One Was Looking (Cincinnati, OH: CW Books, 2014) is like falling down a rabbit hole and landing in the midst
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