Review: IN PRAISE OF USEFULNESS by Angela Patten
In Praise of Usefulness Angela Patten 2014 Wind Ridge Books 73 pages Review by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI In Praise of Usefulness, Angela Patten’s third collection of poetry, meditates on the boundaries between childhood and adulthood and Ireland and America. The recurring...
Review: DARKMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN by Jay Ponteri
Darkmouth Strikes Again Jay Ponteri 2014 Future Tense Books 32 pages Review by MATT POSKY On the page Jay Ponteri comes across as a deeply unhappy man with common but ferocious demons that he needs to have exorcised immediately. His debut work, Wedlocked: A Memoir,...
Review: IF THE TABLOIDS ARE TRUE WHAT ARE YOU? by Matthea Harvey
If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? Matthea Harvey 2014 Graywolf Press 147 pages Review by BETHANY STARTIN “When I say we I mean/me in a wide wide dress,” Matthea Harvey writes in “On Intimacy,” her words illustrated by a silhouette of a woman clothed in a...
Review: I DON’T KNOW DO YOU by Roberto Montes
I Don’t Know Do You Roberto Montes 2014 Ampersand Books 102 pages Review by CHRIS EMSLIE What Montes achieves in his debut collection of poems is the reverse of objectification. Rather than reducing the body of the beloved to a thing, a mere object of desire,...