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Reviews: K. Smith, “Abuptly Dogen”; S. Pious, “Sappho is Dead”; L. Lampert-Weissig, “Instrument of Memory’; T. Metzger, “Strong Songs of the Dead”

Kidder Smith, Abruptly Dogen, Punctum Books 2024. Zen books can be quite annoying. They usually purvey spiritual  non sequiturs  with a sanctimonious undertone of “if you were as enlightened as…

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Vinograd: “The Book of Jerusalem”; Farrington, “Flares and Fathoms”; Ladin, “The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something”.

Julia Vinograd, The Book of Jerusalem, Zeitgeist Press 2024 Julia Vinograd, poetic portraitist of Berkeley street life from the sixties on, worked throughout her life on a cycle of poems,…

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Reviews: Evan Fowler, “Seeing Thing;” Th. Metzger, “Flaherty’s Wake;” Kidder Smith, “Li Bo Unkempt”

Evan Fowler, Seeing Thing, Atmosphere Press 2023. 79 pages Several poems from this book have already appeared in in 96, and this link will lead you to them. Needless to…

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Reviews: Margot Farrington, Anne Myles, Jean Lorrain, Federico Andahazi, Behr’s Women Artists in Expressionism

Margot Farrington, The Blue Canoe of Longing, Dos Madres Press 2019. Available from Dos Madres and Amazon Margot Farrington’s Blue Canoe is an unqualified pleasure. Every poem in it is…

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Reviews: Soviet SF, Tales of Sex & Death, Yuri, Dr. Dee, Barbara Holland

Aelita, Queen of Mars Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924) was based on a 1923 novella by Aleksey N. Tolstoy, a distant cousin of War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy. It…

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