Book review: “Absences: A Sequence” by John A. Griffin
The 21 poems in John A. Griffin’s chapbook Absences: A Sequence appear very orderly. Each is 20 lines long. Within each poem, the number of syllables per line [...]
Book review: “Aura: Last Essays” by Gustaf Sobin
One of the seven short essays in Gustaf Sobin’s final book Aura, published in 2009, is about the deep, unremitting darkness of medieval times. And about light, then and now. We [...]
Book review: “The Burren Wall” by Gordon D’Arcy
I’ve never been to the Burren in western Ireland or, for that matter, to Ireland at all. But my curiosity was piqued when I heard about Gordon D’Arcy’s 2006 book [...]
Poem: “At the hill tomb”
At the hill tomb At the hill tomb, she finds nothing. She tells the guys, and they run to find folded blooded linen. She sits on the [...]
Book review: “The Melody” by Jim Crace
The dainty Persian bells would jingle in the middle of the night when Alfred Busi’s wife Alicia would go downstairs to the larder for a snack. “What could it matter [...]
Book review: “Trickster: Native American Tales, a graphic collection,” edited by Matt Dembicki
Well, when you get down to it, isn’t life a trick? You’re born and spend your whole existence on Earth trying to figure out what it all means. And then [...]
Book review: “Time and Again” by Jack Finney
Jack Finney’s 1970 time-travel novel Time and Again is a lot of things, including a cult favorite. It’s a science fiction novel inasmuch as it deals with time [...]
Poem: “Comment te dire adieu”
Comment te dire adieu How to say goodbye on a gray-blue morning? In the end, turn and walk out the door, carrying the room on [...]
Book review: “Abraham Lincoln” by Adam I.P. Smith
Abraham Lincoln by Adam I.P. Smith was published in 2014 by the Britain-based History Press as part of its Pocket Giants series of very short — 100 or so pages [...]
Poem: “Veronica”
Veronica Veronica is not a name given to many baby girls today. She wiped the face of Jesus at the side of the packed- stone street the condemned man [...]