Featured Book Reviews for June-July 2009
Brownsville: Stories, by Oscar Casares -- A collection of short stories about the inhabitants of this Texas border town. Unique perspectives and characters you won't easily forget ... more...
Ceci n'est pas Keith Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie, by Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop -- An extraordinary pairing of autobiographies from the prolific founders of Burning Deck Press ... more...
Our literary link for this issue is the International
Children's Digital Library, which hosts nearly 4000
books in 54 languages, accessible through
Featured Book Reviews for April-May 2009
The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents' Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff, by Julie Hall -- Hall deals thoroughly and tactfully with the emotionally-charged subject of getting rid of a parent's "things" when they pass away ... more...
Measure: An Annual Review of Formal Poetry, Vol. II, 2007 -- Now published twice a year by The University of Evansville Press, this journal focuses on metrical poetry by contemporary writers ... more...
Rain Taxi: review of books, Vol. 13, No. 4, Winter 2008/2009 -- We're reviewing the reviewers this month, highlighting one of the few remaining print publications dedicated to reviewing titles from a wide variety of presses ... more...
Featured Book Reviews for February-March 2009
Bringing Vincent Home, by Madeleine Mysko -- When Vincent is rushed
from Vietnam to a military burn ward in Texas, his family struggles
to come together despite mixed and far-ranging views on the difficult
subjects of religion and war ... more...
Savage Machinery, poems by Karen Rigby -- In these poems, Rigby
weaves the surreal with religious imagery and explores how we find
beauty, whether in art, religion, everyday objects, or in our
Featured Book Reviews for Fall 2008
Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, edited by Sharon
Bryan -- Twenty-two women poets discuss how tradition and gender have
or have not affected their own writing ... more...
Templeton Turtle Goes Exploring, by Ron Pridmore, with illustrations
by Michele-lee Phelan -- Templeton Turtle emerges from his shell
eager to explore his environment in this tale set to inspire a love
Humming the Blues: Inspired by Nin-ne-šar-ra, Enheduanna's Song to
Innana, poems by Cass Dalglish -- Dalglish learned cuneiform in order
to translate the works of early female poets and she lends a jazz
sensibility to Enheduanna's poems... more...
Featured Book Reviews for Summer 2008
Immortal, by Traci L. Slatton -- Luca Bastardo emerges from the
gutters of 14th-century Florence to become wealthy, only to lose it
all as the secret of his immortality is revealed ... more...
Revenge, by Stephen Fry -- The actor-novelist recasts the story of
The Count of Monte Cristo for contemporary times and injects his own
Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees, poems by Julianna Baggott -- An
award-winning collection of witty and memorable poems on the subject
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets,
by Ted Kooser -- Aimed at people who have always wanted to write
poetry, but never had the chance to formally study the craft... more...
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