Review: SARAH/SARA by Jacob Paul
Sarah/Sara Jacob Paul 2010 Ig Publishing 200 pages Review by RACHEL ADAMS At a cozy brewpub in Salt Lake City, Utah, I share a pitcher of beer with author Jacob Paul. He has just handed me an advance copy of his new book, Sarah/Sara, and the discussion turns to a...
An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Interview by J. KIRK MAYNARD Joan Houlihan’s latest book of poems, The Us (Tupelo, 2009), revives the poet as storyteller with a tale of primitive tribesmen known as the “us,” surviving outside civilization. The story is told from the collective viewpoint of the Us,...
An Interview with Kathryn Davis
Interview by LAURENCE ROSS [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/6016467" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Black...
An Interview with David Young
Interview by JUAN REYES The first time I met him, David Young was sitting on a couch waiting for me, the last of his students, to arrive to class. He hosted a poetry class and curriculum that was all about exploring three international poets he had earlier translated...
An Interview with Dave Madden
Interview by ERIC PARKER Black Warrior Review: Let me ask the obvious question first, the one you’re probably tired of being asked: you wrote a collection of short stories for your Ph.D. dissertation, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and Other Stories, so how did you...
Review: STAR IN THE EYE by James Shea
Star in the Eye James Shea 2008 Fence Books 80 pages Review by JESSICA FORDHAM KIDD The straightforward idiom in James Shea’s Star in the Eye can be deceptive at first. Taken piece by piece, the images of each poem seem so right and precise that I almost forget to...
Review: FOSSIL FUEL by JoAnne McFarland
Fossil Fuel JoAnne McFarland 2007 Gold Leaf Books 66 pages Review by HEATHER DUERRE HUMANN Fossil Fuel, JoAnne McFarland’s sixth poetry collection, begins with her borrowing a saying attributed to the 13th century Persian poet and philosopher Rumi: “if there is hunger...
Review: DEAR SOUND OF FOOTSTEP by Ashley Butler
Dear Sound of Footstep Ashley Butler 2009 Sarabande Books 128 pages Review by LAURENCE ROSS Writing about cancer is a difficult task, given its ubiquitous—and therefore well-known and well-documented—horror. But in Dear Sound of Footstep, a sequence of essays...
Review: TOKYO BAY TRAFFIC by Cecile Rossant
Tokyo Bay Traffic Cecile Rossant 2007 Red Hen Press 164 pages Review by MIKE WALONEN Cecile Rossant’s Tokyo Bay Traffic (Red Hen Press, 2008) shifts kaleidoscopically in narrative focus, providing a panoramic view of a surreal, hyperreal Tokyo defined by sex,...
An Interview with Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr is the author, most recently, of The Transformation (2007), about colonialism, language politics, cultural geography, queer theory, the academy, and the effects of all these on three people who move between New York and Hawai‘i. Previous books...