“Lovely, astute and beautifully crafted poems—and something . . . ineffably both hopeful and resigned here. Some tone or style one doesn’t see much of … an original.”
—Daniel Lawless
“What great company this lived life’s poetry is! In keeping their delicate balance, Joyce Peseroff’s poems are honest and demanding; Tolstoyan in embrace”—DeWitt Henry
Joyce Peseroff’s sixth collection, Petition, is available from University of Chicago Press Distribution and your local independent bookstore.
Away Away is Mark Pawlak’s first full-length poetry collection since Reconnaissance, published in 2016 in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of Hanging Loose (you can find my review here). Much of what concerns the poet in his last book persists in this volume published by Arrowsmith Press. Pawlak remains a master of the transformative detail, […]
Thanks to DJ Snowhite for the music to the second poem in Petition, “Not Far”!
TRAMPOLINE AND BALANCE BEAM: ON ELTON GLASER’S GHOST VARIATIONS AND STEVEN CRAMER’S DEPARTURES FROM RILKE Elton Glaser and Steven Cramer bookend my life in poetry. I began reading Elton’s work––and he mine––when we were MFA students at U.C. Irvine fifty-plus years ago. Steven and I, along with Teresa Cader, have shared work for almost two […]