Books We've Reviewed from Handsel Books

Book Review

A Word Like Fire

American poetry is always the better for the likes of poets such as this one, late of “the wilds of eastern California,” as he called it. Born in San Bernardino, Barnes grew... Read More

Book Review

Montale in English

Translation has been called “the art of the possible,” and this new collection of poetry demonstrates the spectrum of meaning implied by this phrase. By setting multiple... Read More

Book Review

Crossing the Hudson

It is the Mother from Hell who opens this novel as her son Gustav arrives at JFK Airport to spend his va-cation with his family in upstate New York. As they set off across... Read More