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![Copper 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 […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review of On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek")
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 […] -
![The 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 […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2012/03/salty-e1297286564370-115x115.jpg "Review of The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White")
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 […] -
Review of Double Shadow by Carl Phillips
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsDouble Shadow, by Carl Phillips Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. $23.00 hardcover. Reviewed by James Crews The poet Carl Phillips must love the sea, standing “where the land ends no […] -
Review of Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsHoroscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins Random House (2011) $24 (hardback) Reviewed by James Crews Billy Collins’ ninth collection of poetry pokes and prods the idea of mortality—the author’s […] -
Review of The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn Graywolf Press (2011) $22 Reviewed by James Crews One reads Nick Flynn’s newest book of poems—his first in almost […] -
Review of Unseen Hand by Adam Zagajewski
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsUnseen Hand by Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 $23.00 (hardback Reviewed by James Crews In his latest collection, Unseen Hand, Adam Zagajewski once […]