Tag: book review

  • Book Review – Losing Miami, poems by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué

                        Of all the books I read and reviewed this year, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué collection of poems, Losing Miami, was my favorite. Like many people, I primarily encounter climate change in numbers – numbers of degrees average temps have increase, number of species lost, number of fires,…

  • Book Review – Bloomland by John Englehardt

    John Englehardt’s Bloomland is a novel about a massacre at a rural college told in second person and focusing on three characters, a student, a professor, and the shooter. This book is not for the weak-hearted. It is a tough read, but Englehardt writes the student, Rose, and the professor, Eddie, so real you feel…

  • Book Review – Operating Systems by Joe Pan

    My review for Joe Pan’s poetry collection, Operating Systems (Spork Press, 2019) is up at Heavy Feather Review. I mostly focus on Pan’s long poem that ends the collection, “Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper,” which is awesome. Read the review from Heavy Feather – https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/07/09/pan/ You can purchase Operating Systems from Spork right here –…

  • Book Review – Cold Water Canyon by Anne-Marie Kinney

    The new print edition of Rain Taxi features my review of Anne-Marie Kinney‘s new novel, Coldwater Canyon. It’s kind of a Hollywood noir story told from the perspective of a stalker. Unsettling and compelling. As you can read in my review, I enjoyed it. You can read the review from Rain Taxi. (You gotta buy…

  • Book Review – Survival House by Wendell Mayo

    A couple months ago, I reviewed Wendell Mayo’s new short fiction collection, Survival House, for Heavy Feather Review. Sadly, shortly after the review came out, Wendell passed away. He was the head of the Creative Writing program as Bowling Green State University and a great writer. I’m glad I had the chance to get to…