Tue 18 Dec 2007
December E-Reviews
Posted by Tim under rattle rubbish
The E-Review section of the website has really taken off the last few weeks. I’m adding a review every two or three days, and the queue for new reviews is growing longer and longer. But there’s no shortage of books that deserve attention, and, luckily, there’s no shortage of reviewers willing to give them time. Here are the reviews we’ve added in the last few weeks:
ELEGYReview by Britta Andersson
THE BIRD HOVERERReview by Kristina Marie Darling
INSIDE THIS HOUSEReview by Richard Vargas
CHAINS &Review by Cati Porter
TEACHING METAPHORS
by Nathan Graziano
Review by Anne Brudevold
YAYA’S CLOTH
Review by Karla Huston
TRYING TO HELP THE ELEPHANT MAN DANCE
by Tim Suermondt
Review by Lisa Bower
THE RED LIGHT WAS MY MIND
by Gary Charles Wilkens
Review by Mike Amado
December 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am
Picking up a copy of Donald Hall’s “In a Country of Baseball” re-appears in my brain from time to time..The title itself is enough and then it is about Dock Ellis who you probably know apparently threw a no hitter while trippping on LSD. Regardless of that, Ellis was a hair in the soup bowl wherever he played. I read one of your posts from a few months ago about baseball and poetry and your reluctance to dabble in it…You mentioned Donald Hall…I came across some poems by Jack Spicer and baseball…”Pitchers are ghosts”…..I get the impression that he tapped into the paranoid conspiracy potentials of baseball because there is so much dead time to well, think about paranoid conspiracy potentials…Is it all fixed? Is there any free will? Sign stealing, telepathy between pitcher and catcher, and if it’s all predetermined why don’t baseball gamblers ally themselves with priests and shamans to know the results? There’d be no need for scouts and color commentators if we knew…I don’t know what I am saying except that you might like Jack Spicer baseball poetry. I don’t find any on line, but i have some here and will send in care of your name to the poetry journal you work at…
February 29th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Tim, miss seeing your posts. Hey, I tagged you for the six-word memoir meme. Drop by World Class Poetry Blog and play a round.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Thanks for the tap, Allen, I have to stop forgetting about this space. More posts to follow, I want to get back into the swing of it. I’ll check out the meme next time.