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Review of Incarnadine by Mary Szybist
Posted on June 25, 2013 | No CommentsGraywolf Press, 2013 $10 paper By James Crews It’s been ten years since Mary Szybist’s first collection, Granted (2003), was published to much acclaim, and lucky for us, Szybist did […] -
Review of Earth Again by Chris Dombrowski
Posted on May 16, 2013 | No CommentsWayne State University Press, 2013 $15.95 paper Review by James Crews In Earth Again, Chris Dombrowski taps into our collective fears about the future of the planet and the ways […] -
Review of THE DIRT RIDDLES by Michael Walsh
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2010 $16.00 reviewed by James Crews In the glut of poetry books being published these days, it’s easy for collections like Michael Walsh’s The Dirt Riddles […] -
Review of Paradise, Indiana by Bruce Snider
Posted on May 27, 2012 | No CommentsPleiades Press, 2012 Softcover, $16.95 Reviewed by James Crews I highly recommend getting a hold of Bruce Snider’s latest collection of poems, Paradise, Indiana and reading it back-to-back with his […] -
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 […] -
Review of The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe Salt Ecstasies by James L. White Graywolf Press Re/View Series, Soft, $15 Reviewed by James Crews James L. White’s The Salt Ecstasies, recently re-issued by Graywolf Press for their […] -
Review of About the Dead by Travis Mossotti,
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No CommentsAbout the Dead by Travis Mossotti, Utah State University Press, Cloth $19.95 reviewed by James Crews In his 2011 May Swenson Award-winning first book, About the Dead, Travis Mossotti sketches […] -
Review of Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No CommentsCome, Thief by Jane Hirshfield Knopf, Cloth $25 Reviewed by James Crews In her now-classic book of essays on the craft of poetry, Nine Gates, Jane Hirshfield writes, “Solitude, whether […]