(Las Cruces, NM: Xenos Books, 2018) The cover of Dellolio’s latest book, A Box of Crazy Toys, is bewildering due to the abstract cacophony one observes in the various entities, each a prism through which one might see. Taking the … Continued
(Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2018) One of the first things that came to mind while reading Marc Vincenz’s new poetry collection, Leaning into the Infinite, was a class called Philosophy of Space and Time I took in college. Space and … Continued
(Denver, CO: Elixir Press, 2018) Delving into Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods by Bruce Bond really put me in a challenging moment. Luckily, it was a challenge worth facing. Throughout the book, as the title suggests, Bond … Continued
(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) “The wind doesn’t choose what it moves / as it moves it: warm rain turning / dust to mud. The wind doesn’t choose” writes Shara Lessley in The Explosive Expert’s Wife, her intimate … Continued
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017) Adam Giannelli seizes the fine line between light and dark while exposing the movement through language in his book Tremulous Hinge. He is able to display the conflict of time and language in … Continued
(Montgomery, AL: New South Books, 2015) When I came across Andrew Glaze’s new poetry collection, Overheard in a Drugstore, I wasn’t sure what direction the book would take. Eager to learn what the content of the poems consisted of, I … Continued