Essays read elsewhere delivered (“nothing but elegy”) a sense for what Hall’s life became after Jane Kenyon. I knew what I was in for. Or so I thought. Fifty four pages into the book, there’s no poetry but a snip from one of hers. There are … [Read more]
Like a Museum Dress: Fictionalized Joan Remains Firmly Historical
As with a few other reviewers, I wanted to like this book more than I found myself able to. Some of the reason is endemic to historical fiction. Striking a balance between purely imagined nuance (e.g., "In the crossing, Joan felt a deep dread in her … [Read more]
Prozac or a Sixteen-Question Rx for Spiritual Health?
Consider this fact: 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half are on at least two prescription medications. Most common: antibiotics, antidepressants and painkillers. The need for medication isn’t likely to disappear … [Read more]
Personalized Adware: Top-Tier Crime Drama set in Grippingly Realistic Cyber Future #poetry
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Thomas Sweterlitsch, Berkeley 2014) explodes in a no-man’s land between technology’s shiny terrain and the unpredictable depth of desire. I’m a dystopia skeptic. Not that terrible events aren’t in our future, not that we … [Read more]
David Orr on Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice was an early 20th century poet who was well-known in his time but is lightly read today in the U.S. David Orr makes the case for an adaptation in this perception. Review's Review Book Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice (Wake Forest … [Read more]
A Time for Traveling, a Time for Seeing
Brashares, Ann. The Here and Now, Random House Delacorte Press, 2014. No longer the huge fan of science fiction I once was – at least in its traditional forms – and completely uneducated about the “YA” genre, I worried about giving this book a fair … [Read more]
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