Challenge and Ambition: Rose Solari Releases new Poetry Reviews for WIRoB
Rose Solari's reviews this month focus on four collections that "challenge and stretch the reader’s expectations in terms of content, form, or both."
Rose Solari's reviews this month concern books that "challenge and stretch the reader’s expectations in terms of content, form, or both." This includes Charlotte Pence's vitalizing Code with its centerfold poem written entirely in DNA, Kelvin Corcoran's The Republic of Song with its tributes to the scholar and poet Lee Harwood, Lauren Camp's soft poems based on visual artists of the 20th century in Took House, and the singular obsession with form presented in Peter Kline's Mirrorforms.
As always, Rose Solari writes with generosity and specificity when recounting the challenges and triumphs of each work. It is important also to note something unique to her reviews: her ear for the music of poetry. Solari never leaves the reader wanting for descriptions of concord and discord.
Rose Solari's is a monthly poetry review column for the Washington Independent Review of Books. You can find more of her reviews HERE.
Solari, while an excellent reviewer of poetry, is herself a regarded poet. Check out her work HERE.
New LFTRR Tackles the Question: Should We Write?
In this episode of Live from the Reading Room, James J. Patterson reads selections from Simone De Beauvoir’s “The Mandarins” and Richard Peabody’s “The Richard Peabody Reader” all in pursuit of the question: Should I write?
The Johns Hopkins Review Publishes two Poems by Elizabeth Hazen
Two poems from Elizabeth Hazen’s new collection Girls Like Us have been published in the spring edition of the esteemed Hopkins Review.
James J. Patterson Reads from MELANIE’S SONG on Latest LFTRR
James J. Patterson tackles the immaculate prose of author Joanna Biggar on the eleventh episode of Live from the Reading Room.