Black Warrior Review

An Interview with David Young

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 12, 2010 | Archive, Interviews

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

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 1, 2010 | Archive, Interviews

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

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 21, 2010 | Archive, Reviews

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

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 21, 2010 | Archive, Reviews

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

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 21, 2010 | Archive, Reviews

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...