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...