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Review of Touch by Henri Cole
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsFarrar, Straus, Giroux 2011 Hardcover, $23 by James Crews Henri Cole’s Touch is a dark but redemptive book. These poems—many of them sonnets—strike an elegiac, confessional tone as Cole reconstructs... -
Review of Forms and Hollows by Heather Dubrow
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsCherry Grove Collections, 2011 Softcover $15 Reviewed by James Crews Heather Dubrow’s first collection of poetry, Forms and Hollows, opens with an extended elegy for her mother and makes use... -
Review of On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsCopper Canyon Press, 2010 Softcover, $15.00 Reviewed by James Crews Every once in a while a book of poetry will fall into your hands and—perhaps not expecting much at first—you...