In my final piece as outgoing reviews editor, I briefly review Cameron Barnett’s The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water and Maggie Smith’s Good Bones in the new December issue of Plume.
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Review of Nancy Chen Long
My review of Nancy Chen Long’s Light Into Bodies appears in the new October issue of Plume.
Review of William Brewer
My review of William Brewer’s I Know Your Kind appears in the new September issue of Plume.
The Fawn Abyss Reviewed!
The Fawn Abyss garnered a positive review in the new August edition of the Washington Independent Review of Books! Reviewer Grace Cavalieri wrote, “There’s a measured authority in every line; and when he talks about the present time there’s a cellular reality, touched with hope, saying what must not be lost.” You can read the full review here.
Reviews of Mark Cox & Bill Knott
My brief reviews of Mark Cox’s Sorrow Bread: Poems 1984-2015 and Bill Knott’s I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems 1960-2014 appear in the new August issue of Plume.
Review of Patricia Smith
My review of Patricia Smith’s Incendiary Art appears in the new July issue of Plume.
Review of Robert Gibb
Four Chapbook Reviews at Plume
I briefly review four recent chapbooks in the new May issue of Plume: Tommye Blount’s What Are We Not For, Jennifer Givhan’s Lifeline, Sarah Pape’s Ruination Atlas, and Shelly Wong’s Rare Birds.
Review of Frannie Lindsay & New Sonnet
My review of Frannie Lindsay’s If Mercy features in the March installment of Plume. My sonnet “The Harrow Plow” appears in this new issue, too.
Review of Anna Świrszczyńska
My review of Anna Świrszczyńska’s Building the Barricade, newly translated by Piotr Florczyk, appears in the new February issue of Plume.
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