The moon! It was the glow of the moon that Dana had seen when she felt suddenly terribly ill. Then the dream-or was it? A tiny green face with a red jelly cap smiled over the bed covers, as Dana lay in her semi-awareness of fever.... Read More

In this smart new selection for the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets series, readers will discover a worldly but tender female persona. Here is a modern Magdalene: complicated, tired, self-aware. Though she’s still young enough to fall in... Read More

The imagery of these poems revels in color (“this month/ will always have a man in red pants / and a new blue shirt“), in emotional intensity (“his head hung so low / shoulder blades become wings / threatening to burst through his... Read More

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language,“ writes Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac (1948). The... Read More

There’s something called dramatic verisimilitude which might be regarded as a combination of Coleridge’s “willing suspension of disbelief” and Aristotle’s maxim in his Poetics that “the poet should prefer probable... Read More

In one of his poems, Kuusisto calls himself a “fool of the night seasons,” referring to the blindness that affected him during his youth. This poet, however, is no fool about poetry or the construction of beautiful and haunting... Read More

This tale has such heartfelt realism that the reader might confuse it with nonfiction. The book is cleverly written in first person with the prologue immediately focusing on the plight of whether the earth is “renewed or destroyed”... Read More

A first poetry book by an author who has had numerous other careers (educator, political activist, editor of the New Republic), Brace’s Cove is not surprisingly retrospective, but Featherstone’s impulse is clearly lyric rather than... Read More