Tag Archives: Book Reviews

Review of Doug Frank’s A Gentler God

Like most people, my understanding of God’s image and character has been transformed over time: in my case, from the bearded old white man of Sunday school lore, giving judgment from atop fluffy clouds, to a much more inclusive—and, to be honest, more ambiguous—deity,

“This place is a longing”

A Review of Daniel Bowman, Jr.’s A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country

“Mohawk comes / like blackbirds at dawn” begins “Poem for the Undead,” first in Daniel Bowman, Jr.’s A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country.

D.S. Martin’s Poiema & Sally Rosen Kindred’s No Eden

Everyone has a few, unforgettable first encounters with this or that poet. A few of these occasions come under the noblest circumstances (e.g. that instant you comprehended, in a flash, the whole Blakean cosmology). Others arrive in the “ig-noblest” moments

The Garbage Eater: Poetry for the Digital Age

Brett Foster is an academic poet. By this I don’t simply mean his work is difficult—which sometimes it is—but that his poems are often concerned with academic interests. For example in his poem “Tea with Mr. Milton,” Foster imagines meeting John Milton and discussing such things as Milton’s pamphlet

Tania Runyan’s Simple Weight

In her debut full-length poetry collection, Simple Weight, a finalist for the 2010 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, Tania Runyan (Ruminate contributor for Issue 16: Mapping This Place and Issue 21: Grief) distills, explores, and expands the weighty promise encapsulated in the Beatitudes and the relevance of that promise in our lives today. Her carefully arranged poems force us to slowly enter the