Our Sudden Museum by Robert Fanning / Salmon Poetry / 2017 / 978-1-910669-67-9 / 82 pages In Our Sudden Museum, poet Robert Fanning is no stranger to tragedy. As readers of this collection, we become witness to a landscape deepened with heart-felt longings. Here, in his third book, we see that it is dedicated, in part, to the poet’s father, sister, and brother, all of whom … [Read more...]
Giving the Stars Their Right Names: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, reviewed
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith / Graywolf Press / 96 pages / 978-1555977856 / September 5, 2017 Not all poems are written and speak out in defense of something, not many books reach up and over their own identity to inhabit others, “learning to become all the space i need” (see: “it began right here”), but Danez Smith in their second collection of poems titled Don’t Call … [Read more...]
Three Dream Poems by Z.G. Tomaszewski
Scouting I. Wine bottles roll bow to stern, clank and jumble, a tide inside the vessel, forward and back— I weigh these words, almost as if a god spoke them against the volume of our history: the body, its language, a mythology of self. I weigh these words upon the incompleteness of time and our failing to ever get it right. These words, merely shadows of a … [Read more...]
