These comments first appeared in Critical Flame, 13 May, 2013 The New Arcanaby John Amen and Daniel Y HarrisSoftcover, $14.95NYQ Books, 2013 The New Age poetry and play of this collaboration call to mind Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness, in which Young brings New York School surrealism into new relief. He talks of a […]
Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line: Poets & Poetry 1940-2005 Volumes I and II By Jack Foley (Oakland: Pantograph Press, 2011) Review By Zara Raab Jack Kerouac coined the phrased “Beat Generation” in […]
Hearing Beyond Sound: New and Collected Poems y Elaine M. Starkman Many of the poems in this collection draw on Starkman’s travels to Israel and Europe, and on her lifelong commitment to Zen practice. Fog is universal, but nowhere does it have quite the presence it has in the San Francisco Bay area, where Elaine Starkman, […]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Longfellow’s “The Fire of Drift-Wood” and Kasischke’s “Things That Have Changed Since You Died” By Zara Raab We want to read and write poems that speak to us in this time and place. That’s how they come alive. But there may be value in the very strangeness, the otherness of poems from […]
Longfellow’s “The Cross of Snow” and Kasischke’s “Things That Have Changed Since You Died” By Zara Raab We want to read and write poems that speak to us in this time and place. That’s how they come alive. But there may be value in the very strangeness, the otherness of poems from other times and […]
[Note: "Dives" is reprinted below and is available on line in Google archives.] Among poems about the homeless and insane, “Dives” is not perhaps as powerful, dramatic, or moving as Donald Justice’s “In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn,” or even Ferry’s own poem “The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People,” […]