Book Reviews
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Review by A. Molotkov Iron String by Annie Lighthart Iron String by Annie Lighthart, Airlie Press ISBN 978-0-9821066-7-9 2013, 77pp, $15 http://airliepress.org/iron-string Now I understand that there are two melodies playing, one below the...
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Review by Larina Warnock Willingly Would I Burn by Laura LeHew MoonPath Press ISBN 978-1-936657-08-7 2013, 57 pp., $10 http://www.lauralehew.com/ "Willingly Would I Burn" by Laura LeHew On a surface level, mathematics and poetry couldn’t...
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Review by Carolyn Martin To That Mythic Country Called Closure By M A Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Award Winner Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series ISBN# 978-0-9797137-7-4 2013, 38 pp., $10.00 http://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm First, it’s the in-your-face...
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Tomorrow Too by Don Colburn Review by Tim Pfau TOMORROW TOO: The Brenda Monologues By Don Colburn Finishing Line Press, Georgetown KY ISBN: 978-1-62229-395-7 Scheduled publication November 8, 2013. $14 (Pre-orders through finishinglinepress.com) doncolburn.net/tomorrow/ www.finishinglinepress.com...
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Review by Erik Muller In the White Room By Elizabeth McLagan CW Books ISBN# 978-1-62549-014-8 2013, 92pp., $18 www.readcwbooks.com Elizabeth McLagan, a determined poet in an indeterminate world, sets up early the terms of her...
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Review by John Sibley Williams Understory: Poems By Paulann Petersen Lost Horse Press 2013, 196 pp., $21.95 Paulann Petersen's web site / Powell's Books Before even opening Paulann Petersen’s latest collection, Understory, I was greeted with a haunting...
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Photo courtesy of John Sibley Williams Review by Kelly Eastlund Motionless from the Iron Bridge: A Northwest Anthology of Bridge Poems Edited by John Sibley Williams Bare bone books 2013, 38 pp., $7.50 Ordering information...
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. Finishing Line Press. $14 Comment by Erik Muller One virtue of chapbooks is their clarity of intent that can be sustained for a reading straight through. It is a rare larger volume that...
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Love At First Read by Toni Van Dusen (first printed in CALYX, 2010 - reprinted with permission) PHOTOGRAPH WITH GIRLS: POEMS, Nancy Carol Moody. Traprock Books, 66 pages, $15 paper. There are many reasons to buy and...
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The Matter and Manner of At This Distance, a review by by Erik Muller Bette Lynch Husted. At This Distance. Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010, $14. Bette Lynch Husted is another strong voice among Eastern Oregon poets published by David...
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