Tag: microreview
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microreview & interview: Tina Cane’s Once More With Feeling
review by José Angel Araguz A Minor History of the East Village – Tina Cane Maybe you knew a kid who booked through Tompkins Square on his Schwinn and came out the other side without the bike and in his socks never mind he wasn’t buying drugs this the price of his stupidity or maybe you…
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microreview & interview: Michael J. Wilson’s A Child of Storm
review by José Angel Araguz Tesla Writes An Obituary – Michael J. Wilson I left you New York — Walked the mountain paths of Colorado — found a field to plant my bulbs I’m the tired circus sidekick — arms spread — tied to a wheel waiting for daggers The clear dark night steamed with…
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rogue-ing with robin carstensen
As I noted in my recent microreview & interview of Robin Carstensen’s In the Temple of Shining Mercy, one of the things that moved me was the use of empathy as a kind of engine for poetry throughout the collection. The close and true listening required of this kind of writing is instructive and illuminating. Instructive…
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microreview & interview: Robin Carstensen’s In the Temple of Shining Mercy
review by José Angel Araguz Stray – Robin Carstensen She came howling for food on the porch in June — tufts of gray-white hair sprung from her birdlike strut — huffing a claim for herself, as if she could conjure the rain in this brown drought-struck town, boarded up houses marked Foreclosed. On this small plot…
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microreview & interview: Roberto Carcache Flores’ A Condensation of Maps
review by José Angel Araguz Treatment – Roberto Carcache Flores If I could I’d be your therapist, playing smooth jazz through the morning, one eye on the clock, another in your folder. I’d browse through all those cries you scribbled using watercolors while waiting for a ring, to usher you inside. My hands would shake…
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new microreview & interview at the CR blog!
Just a quick post to share my latest and last microreview & interview for the Cincinnati Review blog! This time around I spend time with Jennifer Givhan’s Landscape With Headless Mama (Pleiades Press). I’ve had a blast writing for the CR blog and plan to continue the microreview & interviews here on the Influence (check out…
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breathing with Steven Sanchez
In my microreview & interview of Steven Sanchez’s To My Body (Glass Poetry Press), I focused primarily on the use of imagery throughout the collection to explore the presence of both the physical and experiential body in a poem. It is more than fitting, then, that this week’s poem, “Human Breath Is Eroding The Sistine Chapel,”…
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microreview & interview: Steven Sanchez’s To My Body
review by José Angel Araguz In his chapbook To My Body (Glass Poetry Press), Steven Sanchez brings together a series of poems that explore the ways in which the body learns what it means to be present. In unpacking moments of conflict and joy, To My Body becomes an ode to both the physical body and the body of…
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