Sunday, July 31, 2011
SNEAK A PEEK AT MARY MACKEY'S NEXT MHP BOOK!
A sneak peek at Mary Mackey's forthcoming book SUGAR ZONE is available through the poem "How We Lost Solange" up at the Mad Hatter's Review Blog!
A sneak peek at Mary Mackey's forthcoming book SUGAR ZONE is available through the poem "How We Lost Solange" up at the Mad Hatter's Review Blog!
Thursday, July 07, 2011
REVIEW OF PEACE CONFERENCE!
William Allegrezza offers a "Daily Glance" review of Thomas Fink's latest book PEACE CONFERENCE. Click on excerpt below for entire review:
William Allegrezza offers a "Daily Glance" review of Thomas Fink's latest book PEACE CONFERENCE. Click on excerpt below for entire review:
Thomas Fink's Peace Conference is filled with shaped poems and lyric utterances. Partially, this book seems like an exploration of form that takes up what Fink has done in other books. The shaped poems that begin the book are fascinating because they are non-standard shapes with some stanzas (if they can be called that) that are formed like x's and some that do not connect. These forms complicate the reading process, especially when Fink plays with narrative lines with quick shifts in topic. (I wish that I could reproduce these here, but I think I'd have to use a pdf or photo to do that.) Beyond the shaped poems, Fink plays with new forms; for example, he creates a series that combines a prose poem with a hay(na)ku. It looks like a haibun but is something different. It's amazing how much he manages to pack into his pieces
