Review of John N. Maclean’s “Home Waters” in Harvard Review

“John N. Maclean begins his memoir fly fishing on Montana’s Big Blackfoot River. Many years earlier, he had asked his father, Norman, why they no longer fished that stretch of river. His father had explained that it was because he didn’t know the new landowner, but the son also claims that his father ‘held many memories close, in a kind of time vault, to be reshaped and burnished without the nuisance of updates.'”

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• September 6, 2020

Review of Christopher Jane Corkery’s poems “Love Took The Words” in Harvard Review

“Thirty-five years after her lauded debut collection, Blessing, Christopher Jane Corkery’s superb second book, Love Took the Words, extends her commitment to musical, allusive, formally inventive poetry, which draws on religious and literary traditions as well as daily life.”

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• August 27, 2020

Review of Kathleen Graber’s new poems in “The River Twice”

“In this time rocked by pandemic and protests, Kathleen Graber offers poems that examine the nature of communion and communication. Troubled by divisive political rhetoric and the way language has been weaponized in the age of Trump, the speaker must nevertheless trust her own words—to tell us about mounting bills, a missing cat, divorce, sickness, and the loss of a loved one. Between the political and the personal, despair and hope, she finds salvation in the knowledge…”

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• August 25, 2020

Review of John Larison’s novel, “Whiskey When We’re Dry” in Harvard Review

“John Larison’s Whiskey When We’re Dry has all the classic elements of a Western saga: endlessly promising yet punishing land, tobacco and booze, corrupt lawmen and kindly prostitutes, good guys and bad guys with guns blazing. But it’s the particular story of our hero, Jesse, and her gender fluidity that makes this a truly excellent book.”

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• May 29, 2019

Review of Tracy Smith’s collection of poetry, “Wade in the Water” in Harvard Review

Tracy K. Smith’s fourth book of poetry ends with “An Old Story” of terrible times. Echoing Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” Smith bemoans a ravaged land and rising hate—the “worst in us having taken over / And broken the rest utterly down.”

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• April 11, 2019

Review of Todd Davis’ “WinterKill”

“I believe, / despite my unbelief,” Todd Davis testifies in Winterkill’s opening “Homily”.”

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• February 1, 2018

Review of Paula Bohince book “Swallows and Waves” Read Henry Hughes's review in the Harvard Review (click here).

Review of Wayne Harrison’s “The Spark and the Drive”

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• October 11, 2015

Review of Lauren Shapiro’s book “Easy Math” Read Henry Hughes's review in the Harvard Review.

Review of Dorothea’s Tanning’s “Coming to That”

“Coming to That is the perfect fulfillment of an artistic life—to live very long and deliberately, to maintain a sharp mind and serviceable body, soaking up a multitude of paintings, films, plays, ballets, operas, books, songs, poems (and, yes, champagne) and bringing it to bear on one’s creative endeavors, right to the very end and into the future.”

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• June 28, 2014