Reviews: What we’ve been reading lately
It just so happens that your ringmasters — Carolee, Deb and Jill — read quite a bit of poetry. And we bet you to, too.
Since we have a “reviews” heading under the Big Top, why not point you in the direction of recent blog posts from community members about books?
We’ll start it off:
- Carolee read Rough Honey by Melissa Stein recently and has a few words (and some representative lines) at her blog, Carolee Sherwood.
- Deb read Blameless Mouth by Jessica Fox-Wilson and is stop number two on a virtual blog tour. She shares bits of poems, links to some found online, and provides a Q&A on the question of personal/persona poetry.
Have you posted about a poetry collection you’re reading? It doesn’t have to be a full-fledged or formal review. Email a link to your post to info@bigtentpoetry.org. We’ll gather up your links and every week or so (not on any particular schedule — remember how laid back we are around here?) plop them into a Big Tent post. We think it will be fun to hear your voices not just in your own poems but in how you react to the poetry of others!
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I’ve got reviews of Yehoshua November’s book God’s Optimism, and of Merle Feld’s book finding words, coming out Zeek at some point. I’ll drop a link when those reviews go live!
I recently reviewed Jackie Kay’s new book Fiere for Brighton Blogger’s Book After Book blog – you can read it at: http://bookafterbook.blogspot.com/2011/02/book-review-fiere.html.
I’ve also just reviewed Mark Doty’s My Alexandria on my over Forty Shades Blog: http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-alexandria-by-mark-doty.html
My post and haiku about Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden Of Verses isn’t exactly a review. It’s more of a recollection of a strong childhood memory and influence: A Childhood Shadow.