Reviews

I checked inside the back cover of Barry Wallenstein’s latest book, It’s About Time, for a CD in which his voice, mellow for a native New Yorker, might speak these poems to a cool, curvy sax or a pianist hovering above the keys as a jockey bends over a horse....

John Brehm's pilgrimage began in Nebraska and took him to Brooklyn. There he honed a rather sharp edge which now as he seeks illumination in Portland, Oregon, he sometimes deprecates as an obstacle of compassion for other people.

My father liked to quote Lin Yutang, a popular sage of the 30’s: “Patriotism is the memory of the good things you had to eat as a child.” In this sense, the Romanian-born poet Carmen Bugan is a patriot, though Lilies from America, her collection of new and selected poems just out from Shearsman, never waves the Romanian flag.