Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

For years now the genius of Jorie Graham's headlong, nigh logorrheic style has been to simultaneously court and deny the identity of the poetic line, allowing potential linear thrust to occupy a ground beyond the line but short of the paragraph. In Sea Change that compromise takes form as a margin-to-margin mass of words counterpoised (or transfixed) by a series of shorter lines running in a slender ... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

So: is Frederick Seidel about to burst into uproarious laughter or break into a terrible scream? Looking at his immaculate author's photograph on his new collection's immaculate jacket, one is hard pressed to decide which. From the beginning of his career this poet has consistently cultivated such a duality, often masking it in bald statements only slightly inflected with a toothy grin, as in this line from... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

Not since Donald Allen's landmark New American Poetry 1945-1960 has there been a poetry anthology as indispensable as this. Editors Cole Swensen and David St. John shine a spotlight on a wide range of contemporary poets writing some of the most unique, inventive, and exciting poetry in America today. Established masters John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, and Charles Wright make appearances w... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

*HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION* An absolutely phenomenal debut collection. This young poet casts his keen vision on Humboldt County, California in these beautiful poems that are a mix of Lorine Niedecker, William Bronk, and an American Basho of the 21st-century. Short, haiku-esque poems are some of the most difficult to write -- so much can go wrong in such a small space if a poet who doesn't know what he's doing... read more>>>