Jason Shinder’s Stupid Hope (2009)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleDavid Moody’s Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man & His Work: Volume I:...
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleHelena Mesa’s Horse Dance Underwater (2009)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleJesse Lee Kercheval’s Cinema Muto (2009)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleWilliam Heyen’s A Poetics of Hiroshima (2008)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleNathan Graziano’s After the Honeymoon (2009)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleLucille Lang Day’s The Curvature of Blue (2009)
Over the next few weeks or months, I will post all my reviews (“Tom’s Celebrations”) that appeared in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose (formerly Redactions: Poetry & Poetics) up to and...
View ArticleOn Ingrid Swanberg’s Ariadne & Other Poems
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in the future issue of Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose issue 17, due out in fall 2013.// In today’s poetry that is often...
View ArticleCelebrating 100 Years of BLAST: Call for Submissions
July 2, 2014, will be the 100th anniversary of BLAST, that “great MAGENTA cover’d opusculus” of the Vorticists. Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose will celebrate the 100th anniversary in...
View ArticleRedactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose 2013 Pushcart Nominations
Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose has made its nominations for the 2013 Pushcart Prize. The nominees in the order of appearance in issues 16 and 17 are: Nicholas Wong’s “Meteorology.” (Poem)....
View ArticleOn Kelly Cherry’s The Life and Death of Poetry
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose issue 18, due out July 2, 2014.// The Life and Death of Poetry (Louisiana...
View ArticleModernist Style, Contemporary Play, and Ecological Lament: On Betsy Andrews’...
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose. // Betsy Andrews’ The Bottom (42 Miles Press, forthcoming 2014), winner...
View ArticleRedactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose 2014 Pushcart Nominations
Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose has made its nominations for the 2014 Pushcart Prize. The nominees this year are all poems. In the order of appearance in issue 18 are: Andrea Spofford’s...
View ArticleOn Knowing Knott: Essays on an American Poet
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // My first encounter with Bill Knott was reading a review copy of The...
View ArticleOn Neil Aitken’s Babbage’s Dream
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // Charles Babbage was a mathematician, inventor, and even philosopher, but he...
View ArticleJenny George’s The Dream of Reason is Marvelous
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // The surrealist’s idea of the marvelous varies from surrealist to surrealist....
View ArticleOn Katie Ford’s If You Have to Go
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // Katie Ford’s fourth collection of poetry (and fourth with Graywolf Press), If...
View ArticleOn Keetje Kuipers’ All Its Charms
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // All Its Charms (BOA Editions, 2019) is Keetje Kuipers’ third full-length...
View ArticleOn Carrie Etter’s Imagined Sons
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // I have not found many poems focused on the topic of adoption, and I’ve found...
View ArticleOn Rick Bursky’s Let’s Become a Ghost Story
A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. // “‘Convulsive beauty’ . . . associates surrealist beauty with the unknown,...
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