Book Review: Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
by Maggie Trapp Praying Drunk By Kyle Minor Sarabande Books. 196 pp. $15.95 Kyle Minor subtitled his new book “stories, questions,” and this volume is just that. Praying Drunk, which takes its title...
View ArticleBook Review: Vulgar Remedies by Anna Journey
by Maggie Trapp Vulgar Remedies By Anna Journey Louisiana State University Press. 88 pp. $17.95 Anna Journey’s new collection of poems, Vulgar Remedies, startles with its lucid, lovely, electric...
View ArticleBook Review: Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
by Maggie Trapp Like a Beggar By Ellen Bass Copper Canyon Press. 70 pp. $16 Ellen Bass’s poems are at once crushing and uplifting. The feeling you take away after reading her newest collection, Like a...
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View ArticleBook Review: Practicing the Truth by Ellery Akers
by Maggie Trapp Practicing the Truth By Ellery Akers Autumn House Press. 82 pp. $17.95 Ellery Akers’s poems are so pointed they hurt. Her newest collection, Practicing the Truth, is full of precisely...
View ArticleBook Review: The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield
by Maggie Trapp The Beauty By Jane Hirshfield Alfred A. Knopf. 112 pp. $26.00 In her new collection of poems, much-loved poet Jane Hirshfield writes in a way that is subtle and staggering. Hirshfield...
View ArticleBook Review: Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon
by Maggie Trapp Fiddle is Flood By Lauren Gordon Blood Pudding Press. 26 pages. $7.00 There’s a certain way of growing up American, and it includes reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books. If you remember...
View ArticleBook Review: The Conversation by Judith Barrington
by Maggie Trapp The Conversation By Judith Barrington Salmon Poetry. 78 pages. $21 It can’t be an accident that the word revenant shows up, by my count, three different times in Judith Barrington’s...
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