Review: FIND THE GIRL by Lightsey Darst
Find the Girl Lightsey Darst 2010 Coffeehouse Press 88 pages Review by FARREN STANLEY The sexualization of women—and a girl’s desire to achieve power by becoming an object of sexual interest—is one prevalent sign of a seriously ailing culture. In drawing the reader’s...
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,...