‘I Am the Beggar of the World,’ translated by Eliza Griswold
I could have tasted death for a taste of your tongue / watching you eat ice cream when we were young.
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‘The Pedestrians’ by Rachel Zucker
Kathleen Rooney on the epic small things in Rachel Zucker’s latest.
Review #100: ‘Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001′ edited by Carolyn Forché and Duncan Wu
Wanted to go out of this 100/100 project with a bang but will have to settle for a…
Review #99: ‘Selected Political Poems 1965-2013′ by Bill Knott
Here’s a freebie at the end of my 100/100 reviews project here at Coldfront. As far as I…
Review #98: ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ by Claudia Rankine
Who wants to get worked up about race in America? It’s all the rage! Many artistic trails have…
Review #97: ‘I Don’t Mind If You’re Feeling Alone’ by Thomas Patrick Levy
Start with the bio: “Thomas Patrick Levy was raised in New Jersey, attended a school for at-risk teens,…
Review #96: ‘Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson’ translated by W.S. Merwin & Takako Lento
Reading through the 868 translated haiku of Buson is like cracking open a lot of muddy oysters to…
Review #95: ‘The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse’ translated by Red Pine
What will you be doing for summer vacation? Emptying out your mind? This book in and of itself…
Review #94: ‘Mary Karr’s Ass and Other Selections from My Prose Writings’ by Bill Knott
My guess is there are fewer than five copies of this book in print. Bill Knott self-published this…
Review #93: ‘The Second Sex’ by Michael Robbins
Author Photo: Clayton Hauck It may be a bit premature to review this book (Pub Date: September 30,…