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“You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

The title suggests a story or a riddle, implying that something is going to happen or unfold, or a challenge or competition is going to begin. I’ve never read a book of poetry quite like ‘You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake’

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Kerri Webster’s “Grand & Arsenal”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

The appeal of the poems in Grand & Arsenal is broader than only to St. Louisans. They are delightful, learned, approachable, historical and regional, and replete with literary references to Hawthorne, Lucretius, Ovid and even Agatha Christie.

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Michael Ryan’s ‘This Morning: Poems’

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

A review of Michael Ryan’s ‘This Morning: Poems’

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The Hearing of the Sea: Thoughts on A Broken Thing

By L.L. Barkat 15 Comments

When I come across a book as provocative as A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, I know I will recommend it, but the question is… to whom

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Alan Shapiro’s “Night of the Republic”

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Poet Alan Shapiro loads his minds-eye camera with film (or, these days, a disk)

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Tania Runyan’s “A Thousand Vessels”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

A poetry review of A Thousand Vessels.

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Dave Malone’s “Under the Sycamore”

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

Quick: name a contemporary love poem.

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Stanley Moss’s “God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Now Moss has published what must stand as a testament to his career as a poet

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Donald Hall’s “The Back Chamber”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

From the time I was 8 until I was 14, I spent a week each summer at my grandmother’s house in Shreveport. I would sleep in the second bedroom, which was always called “the back room” even though it and my grandmother’s bedroom formed the back of the house. It was the room with a […]

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Matthew Duggan’s “Underworld: The Modern Orpheus”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Duggan has done something wonderful here with this retelling of an old, old story. He’s given it a modern sensibility while remaining true to its mythological origins.

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Poet Scott Cairns’ “Short Trip to the Edge”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poet Scott Cairns writes about four pilgrimages he makes to spiritual centers of the Eastern Orthodox Church – three in Greece, one to a center in Arizona.

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InsideOut: Poems by L.L. Barkat

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Dream Poems Sunset

A year outside brings us to a year inside. Poems of nature, dreams, sensual love. Divided by seasons, the poems explore the range of human experience.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Dream Poems, Farm Poems, L.L. Barkat, poetry

Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems 1927-1979

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Dolphin poetry

Finding the poems of Elizabeth Bishop. Again. With “The Riverman.”

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The Great Fires, Poems 1982-1992 by Jack Gilbert

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Great Fires Jack Gilbert poetry

Jack Gilbert’s poems are lyrical and clean, like clear ice.

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The Poems of John Estes

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Autumn Offering Poems by Sonia Joie

Estes’ poems evoke a sense of the literary and of everyday reality. He ranges from Virgil to a one-armed, drunken grandfather, and the art of Brueghel.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, John Estes, Poems, poems about writing, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

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