Micro-Microreview: Dorothea Lasky’s Rome
Rome is doggerel. Reading the book is torturous, so complete is its lack of wisdom, imagination, and valor of insight; not even …
March 2015
William Brewer’s “Appalachia, Your Genesis”
William Brewer’s taut poem of uneasy homecoming begins, like Joyce’s Ulysses, with a razor. Joyce does it thus: Stately, plump …
Allen Braden’s “Instructions On Being a Sea Creature”
Imprecision greets the reader of this poem at the outset, and never, afterwards, does the piece seem to resolve the miscommunications to which …
