August 2018 Exemplars: Poetry Reviews by Grace Cavalieri
- Grace Cavalieri
- August 15, 2018
A monthly feature that looks at books of and about poetry. Read the reviews here.
If You Have to Go by Katie Ford. Graywolf Press. 72 pages.
Sing Silence by Le Hinton. Iris G. Press. 80 pages.
The Carrying by Ada Limon. Milkweed Editions. 120 pages.
Our Hands a Hollow Bowl by Sharron Singleton. Grayson Books. 80 pages.
Also, most innovative, plus best chapbooks, anthology, and illustrated:
Feeld by Jos Charles. Milkweed Editions. 80 pages.
Punishment by Nancy Miller Gomez. Rattle. 26 pages.
The Wild Side of the Window by Irene Fick. Main Street Rag. 40 pages.
New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich. Graywolf Press. 304 pages.
Ozark Crows by Carolyn Guinzio. Spuyten Duyvil Press. 86 pages.
Lovebirdman by Stephanie Pressman, illustrations by Lydia Rae Black. CreateSpace. 62 pages.
Plus, four books not reviewed but listed as AUGUST’S BEST BOOKS for summer reading:
Horn Section All Day Every Day by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow. Salmon Poetry. 80 pages.
Atmospheric Embroidery by Meena Alexander. TriQuarterly. 112 pages.
Someone Is Breathing by J. Morris. Dos Madres Press. 100 pages.
Bliss in Triple Rhythm: A Toolbox for Poets by Martin Bidney. CreateSpace. 456 pages.
"BEST BOOK" by Ms. Cavalieri for summer reading in her Washington Independent
Review of Books column, truly I did. But it's fruitless to be disentranced and lukewarm
when you're jumping for joy like you're half-trampoline -- and I assume all the other
solid names on this lovely list feel quite the same. Well, except for, you know,
Mr. Kooser, because don't we assume he's napping after all that tree-trimming
he does?
Come this October, Horn Section All Day Every Day will receive a full, astute
consideration from Grace Cavalieri in the Washington Independent Review
of Books. I can think of very few things I've looked more forward to, and for.
