Crow Reviews welcomes HK Rainey, and her review of “Elevators”, by Rena Rosenwasser. Kelsey Street Press. Up Rising: Rena Rosenwasser’s Elevators I wanted to hold onto up, space of the future, new building You - [...]
“Handing The Cask”, poetry by John Swain, published by erbacce press, UK. Reviewed for Full Of Crow by Lynn Alexander. I keep saying that John Swain is a poet to watch, and I have published as much of his poetry as I could get my hands on including “Burnt Palmistry” and “The Feathered Masks” as [...]
AND WE HAVE LOST THE FAITH OF THE DAISIES Seriously Dangerous, by Helen Losse, Main Street Rag Press, 2011. 62 pp. Reviewed by Paul Corman-Roberts for Full Of Crow. “What shall I make of this hope in the dark? What shall I make of this dark in the hope?” From “Funeral in the Woods” [...]
Somewhere Over The Pachyderm Rainbow: Living in An Elephant-Controlled 2010 Election Diorama, by Jennifer C. Wolfe, reviewed by Lynn Alexander for Full of Crow. Read the last review of Wolfe’s work here: Review of Jennifer C. Wolfe’s “Healing, Optimism, and Polarization”, BlazeVOX Books. Once again Jennifer C. Wolfe takes aim at American politics in her [...]
“Jazzbo Wind”, by Michael Layne Heath, published by Kendra Steiner Editions, reviewed by Paul Corman-Roberts for Full Of Crow. Michael Layne Heath’s poetry is about nothing if not music. An original Washington DC punk rocker expatriated to San Francisco, Heath has found himself a nice little home with Kendra Steiner Editions, a poetry press that [...]
“This Reality Of Man”, poetry by Michael Aaron Casares, published by Lizard’s Tale press, 2010. Reviewed by Lynn Alexander for Full of Crow. Michael Aaron Casares takes a candid look at humanity, as an observer at times, at other times a participant. He asks us how we spend our time, what we are entitled to, [...]
Forked Tongue, by Craig Sernotti, Published by Blue Room Publishing. Nothing’s out there, so stop looking Nothing’s inside, so stop retching If you follow Craig Sernotti, you will probably find that these poems represent the style that you expect from him, and that is a style that you probably feel strongly about- you either like [...]
Lynn Alexander for Full Of Crow on “Watching The Windows Sleep”, a chapbook produced by Naissance, written by Tantra Bensko. A review by Spencer Dew appeared in decomp in January as well and you can check that out here. Find out more on Tantra Bensko at her website and at Naissance Press: Official Tantra Bensko [...]
Rummaging In The Attic is a collection of poetry by Constance Stadler, produced by Differentia Press in 2010. (Read It Online Here) Constance Stadler takes us through a mindscape, the attic housing of the seemingly disparate in context and chronology, at times rendered mute and others- in the words of Rich Follett- buoyant, ebullient. The [...]
Noise Difficulty Flower, produced for download by Argotist Ebooks, written by J.D. Nelson. Who knows how long I have been interested in J.D. Nelson’s work, or how I first came across it. As a prolific poet, widely published, one is bound to run into him somewhere, in the usual places. But J.D. Nelson is not [...]