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Within the composure of Katherine Soniat's phrasing in A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge something unsettled emerges and will not rest. She presents us with a richly conceived world 'given to see through.'...

Like a man who might go fishing as a diversion only to catch somethingextraordinary, maybe Gary L. McDowell didn't set out to write a big fat hymnto the human condition. But he did. The brilliant...

Winner of the 2011 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis's book, Intaglio, was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. Her collaborative chapbook, Emuseum, written with...

Seldom does beauty collide naturally with gravity, but that is what happens in Diane Kirsten Martin's Conjugated Visits repeatedly. Again and again, one finely tuned poem after another, this...

John Keats was of the belief that a "life of any worth is a continual allegory." A.E. Watkin's debut collection takes on the notion with a lovely seriousness. The brilliance in these poems isn't...

Mark Conway is offering us a long letter to the dead, an appeal for a connection beyond the grave ("The Romans had a way / to talk to the dead: bring them / a bowl of blood . . ."). In poem after...

"Spinoza is rubbing my glasses again, leaving / the middle range blurred for a reason. / Any truth is a blur," Barbara Carlson begins one poem, then carries us to Spinoza's periphery with Miro,...

Kyle McCord's Galley of the Beloved in Torment bears the standard of les po?tes maudits, the accursed poets, of Rimbaud, Corbi?re, Mallarm?, et al., and of their forefather Baudelaire. Like the...

Hero: A Podenco's Tale depicts the experience of many Spanish hunting dogs in a tender, honest fashion that respects the intelligence of younger readers. While it refrains from graphic, gratuitously...

Two separate magazines: one spine. These two essential poetry publications now available in one handsome binding. Issue ten of the National Poetry Review features works by: Mary Biddinger, Amy...

Midway through James Cihlar s splendid "Rancho Nostalgia" you ll find some advice: Keep reaching into the past / to grab something new. One of the great wonders of this book full of wonders is that...

Juliana Gray . . . is a beautiful and keen poet. My word, a gifted vision, almost egoless and yet fullhearted. -Barry Hannah Juliana Gray finds abundant inspiration in "the sudden turn within the...

Readers of new poetry have come to expect a certain amount of wonder in the work, a certain receptivity (here and there) to the non-rational, preternatural undercurrents which ordinarily reveal...

In each poem in Scoring the Silent Film, Keith Montesano uses a peripheral character in a film by such varied directors as Michael Haneke, Steven Spielberg, Wes Craven and Ang Lee to draw a deeper...

Jason Bredle is the author of Smiles of the Unstoppable, Pain Fantasy, and Standing in Line for the Beast, as well as the chapbooks Class Project and A Twelve Step Guide. He lives in Chicago.Author:...

Dan Rosenberg drank all the great masters, took them inside, dead and alive, all alive. He explodes them and then he says: "I want the sun to be potent and kind." The sun listens. Or: "The heavens...

In The Even Years of Marriage, Ash Bowen bravely explores the difficult mysteries of human relationships. In this powerful book, a new American voice, honest and forthright, probes without flinching...

Jaime Brunton's poems appear in SPECS journal of art and culture, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, and other journals. Originally from Shawnee, Ohio, Brunton currently lives...

This is two great magazines sharing one spine!Authors in the TNPR: Larry Sawyer, Tracy Knapp, James Grinwis, Julie Danho, Gregory Lawless, John Mann, Susan Rothbard, Edison Dupree, Heather Kirn,...

TNPR contributors: Alexandra Eldridge, Aaron Anstett, Douglas Basford, Jaydn DeWald, Alice B. Fogel, Dorine Jennette, Les Gottesman, Elizabeth Hughey, Gerry LaFemina, Erika Lutzner, Elizabeth...

Judith Skillman's "The Sister," which I accepted for Seneca Review earlier this year, was striking for recasting Cain as sister and memorably arresting for the feral fierceness of the portrait. Her...

Richard Garcia is the author of Rancho Notorious and The Persistence of Objects, both from BOA Editions, and a chapbook of prose poems, Chickenhead, from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared...

No detail is too quotidian to escape the dream catcher of this poet's imagination. Drawing on sources as various as Native American lore, Eastern European folktales, classical literature,...

The WorldAuthor: Mrb ChelkoPublisher: Dream Horse PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2012Number of Pages: 42 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 193571614XISBN-13: 9781935716143

As unflinching as it is graceful, Gary L. McDowell's second collection, Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral, intones an elegy and prayer for all of us. Stippled by loam and lit by awe, these elliptical...

What is Wen Kroy? It is New York spelled backwards, and when people come to the city in their youth, how can it be anything but? Through these poems, we come to love and understand the hardships of...