Pacific Northwest Poetry Reviews - Poets. West Reviews. Poetry reviews currently posted: The Feast. Glenn Evans. Quatrefoil by CB Follett (Review by Joseph Zaccardi)Of a Feather by Michael Daley (Review by J. Today’s Deals: New Deals. If you are looking for good Amazon deals and bargains, Today’s Deals is the place to come. We are your online one-stop shop. Index of Cults and Religions. By the Staff of Watchman Fellowship, Inc. This Index contains brief definitions, descriptions or cross references on over. Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. To link to this poem, put the URL below into your page: <a href='http:// of Myself by Walt Whitman</a> Plain for Printing. Directory of poets and poetry in the Pacific Northwest. Selections of poetry, reviews, information on special public poetry performances, venues with regularly.Glenn Evans) The Antigone Poems by Marie Slaight (Review by Ed Mast) Reverberations from Fukushima 5. Japanese Poets Speak Out edited by Leah Stenson & Asao Sarukawa Aroldi (Review by J. Glenn Evans)I Am Homeland Twelve Korean American Poets edited by Yearn Hong Choi (Review by J. Glenn Evans) Alter Mundus or Other World by Lucia Gazzino & translated by Michael Daley (Review by Sheila Mullen Twyman)Wedding Day by Lee Won- Ro (Review by Yearn Hong Choi)The Crooked Beak of Love by Duane Niatum (Review by Michael Magee)The little, lingering, white lies we allow ourselves to live with by Charles Portolano (Review by Margaret Rozga)The little, lingering, white, lies we allow ourselves to live with by Charles Portolano (Review by Steven Levi)Copenhagen's Bicycle by Yearn Hong Choi (Review by Karolina Gajdeczka)The Tao of Walt Whitman by Connie Shaw and Ike Allen (Review from Fore. Word Reviews)One Bird Falling by CB Follett (Review by Joseph Zaccardi)Moonlight in the Redemptive Forest by Michael Daley (Two reviews posted: by Martin Abramson and by Ellen Jane Powers)Bare Branches by Stephanie Mendel (Review by Joseph Zaccardi)Roads of Bread: The Collected Poems of Eugene Ruggles (Review by Zara Raab) Bajo La Luz De Mi Sangre/Under The Light Of My Blood by Jorge Enrique Gonz. Glenn Evans)Ordinary Mourning by Carrie Shipers (Review by Zara Rabb)The Gift That Arrives Broken by Jacqueline Berger (Review by Zara Rabb)Untitled Poems by Richard Kovac (Review by Zara Rabb)My Minotaur by Keith Holyoak (Review by M. Reprinted from Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, Swerve by Bruce Cohen. Translated by Brother Anthony of Taiz. Glenn Evans) Seeded Light by Edward Byrne. Glenn Evans)Breather by Bruce Dethlefsen. Ries)Stars Beyond the Battlesmoke by David D. Glenn Evans)Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu by Keith Holyoak. All Eyes on US: A Trilogy of Poetry by Charles Portolano (Review by Laurel Johnson - The Midwest Book Review)Merge With The River by James Downs (Review by Joseph Zaccardi)Winds of Change/Vientos de Cambio - Bilingual Poems by Tom. Ries)The Way of the Dreamcatcher: Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax: Poet, Peacemaker, Sage by Steve T. Georgiou (Review by Renee Branigan, O. S. B.)Voices in Wartime edited by Andrew Himes (Review by Barbara Evans)Baby Beat Generation & the 2nd San Francisco Renaissance (Review by Charles P. Ries)Bone Strings by Anne Coray (Review by Katie Kingston)Wrestling with My Father by Doug Holder (Review by Charles P. Ries)Saying The Necessary by Edward Harkness (Review by Judy Lightfoot)By a Thread by Molly Tenenbaum (Review by Judy Lightfoot)Blue Willow by Molly Tenenbaum (Review by Judy Lightfoot)Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal by Alan Chong Lau (Review by Judy Lightfoot)The Cartographer's Tongue by Susan Rich (Review by Judy Lightfoot)Equipoise by Kathleen Halme (Review by Judy Lightfoot)Gratitude by Sam Hamill (Review by Judy Lightfoot)The Essential Basho, translated by Sam Hamill (Review by Judy Lightfoot)The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voicesby Esther Altshul Helfgott (Review by Ruth Fox)Impulse To Loveby Jim Bodeen (Review by Pamela Moore Dionne)Riverside Reflections: Poetic Moods from . Evans)Window in the Sky by J. Glenn Evans (Reviews by Michael Magee, Bart Baxter, and William Murdoch)Klondike Gold Rush Centennial Anthology 1. Review by Jack R. Evans)Something Wild Feeds From My Hand by Betty Fukuyama (Review by Bart Baxter)Streetlamp, Treetop, Star by David Horowitz (Review by Michael Magee)Storm by Judith Skillman (Review by Judy Lightfoot)Storm by Judith Skillman (Review by Sharon Carter)The Truth in Rented Rooms by Koon Woon (Review by Michael Magee) by J. Glenn Evans. SCW Publications: ISBN 9. Softbound, 6. 1 pp.; $1. As a fellow poet who hates war and the underlying worship of profit and power that promotes it, I find Glenn Evans'. The Feast Reflections on War to be very powerful. Written in a simple, unadorned style, Glenn explores war and empires. He has definitely weighed war in the balance and found it wanting. Peace! Steve Osborn- -Poet, Veteran, and anti- war activist. J. Glenn Evans shows his indignation on the war and seeks peace via poetry. This poetry book is a poet's declaration. He denounced Alexander the Great, Roman Empire, British Empire, Napoleon, Hitler and all. For example, George Bush started a totally unnecessary war. Iraq ridiculously. He did not know war, because he avoided his Vietnam duty, another unnecessary war. No more! Yearn Hong Choi, (Ph. D. 1. 97. 4), founding president of the Korean- American Poets and Writers Group and a poet of four. English, most recently . Some of it I thought I might have written myself! I'm heavy into 9/1. We can have peace OR we can have politicians, but we can't have both. Don Richardson. Glenn Evans in the 2. Iraq war. Poets Against War had done their heroic roles. Vietnam era and other wars, long repressed within ourselves. How appropriate now, in 2. J. Glenn releases this collection of his own verse, on war. Perhaps, the language and values. J. It might access more of you than expected. Todd Boyle, independent videographer by CB Follett Many Voices Press 2. Review by Joseph Zaccardi“We are alike and yet not,” CB Follett tells us, and so begins “Tree Music,” this first act of Quatrefoil, as poem after poem unravels the language of trees. The poems are indeed a symphony of adagio and allegro, where the “tops of trees swing / to old rhythms in the open mouths / of winds from the north,” and also are exuberant with their “blizzard of petals.” Through their reliance on image, sound and everyday language, most successful poems deal with life more viscerally than scientific journals and the daily newscasts’ hyperbole. As this poet- speaker intimately considers how flora and fauna relate to the human experience, she lays bare how humans overwhelm vast landscapes with upheavals and thoughtless development, and with reckless clear- cutting, also known as slash- and- burn. After addressing the tension of mankind’s intrusions on ecosystems, Follett weaves a tapestry of vegetable and animal life, imbuing them with soul and consciousness, as in the poem, “The Loving of Trees”: “They ask nothing of me / stand noble as kings along the ridge / branches touching or not / birds coming or not // I love them for their stance / and for never forgetting / to reach upward.”Using her poetic paintbrush, and hewing a delicate line between the tangles of the ordinary and shady branches of the transcendent, Follett argues and cajoles. Her beautiful word parings release their melody the way perfume in a bottle goes unnoticed until atomized; her lineation is both fruitful and mischievous. Poetry is the most varied and complex of arts. Like music, poetry has scales, counterpoints, and harmony, and like a painting it is portraiture and abstract, collage and cubist. And because it acts out lives and histories, tragedies and triumphs, it is like a play, which is why I name each section of Quatrefoil an act. Follett has brought together poems such as “A Kettle of Vultures,” “A Scold of Blue Jays,” and “A Skulk of Foxes,” and other animals in the animal kingdom. In a wonderful twist the poem “A Murder of Crows,” compares Catholic priests to opportunistic predators, as in these lines: “Six priests in the service / of God, touching boys / who can never be untouched.” And in the poem “A Cloud of Bats,” Follett writes “Naughty boys. Early on in her poems we feel her strong environmental foundation and her passionate narrative voice; both attributes weave a unity of humor and reflection, memory and myth. As the title suggests, the poet connects the ordinary with the extraordinary, a place for the common good and common sense, she brings together in true quatrefoil symbiosis an architecturally ornamental design of four lobes resembling a flower or a four- leaf clover. One could think of this collection of poetry as a point where emotions and symbols coalesce. Now on to act 3, “Island Made of Bones,” which brings to this poet’s stage some lighthearted poems: “The Language of Shoes” speaks to the relationship between a man and his dog, the decisions the master makes — will he pick the black shiny shoes, that leave the house without the dog, who thinks “These shoes are unworthy,” “Or the man might choose / the stay- at- home- shoes. Follett humanizes this beast, who asks in one poem, is it too much to want a kind word, a rub behind the ears to make the endless bearable. Cerberus laments and makes light of his situation asking if this is any better than those who come here saying, I don’t deserve this? In the final act, “Poems for Red Canyons,” with a theme as vast as loss, Follett links geological events with the talk of a coyote, which evokes a fantastical language trip: “. A land where the elements clean out // the weaker stone, leaving columns and spires,” to the coyote’s song, “I sing to the moon — some signal of my Hereness.” And then CB Follett brings out her paintbrush once again with flourish and force as she writes in the poem “Paint Pots,” “In an oasis of green, I pull a peach / from a nearby tree and take a bite.” I would like to add one of my favorite quotes, in this vein, from the Tang Dynasty poet Li Po, “In every good poem a peach is mentioned.” Brava! I say to this poet and artist, you have brought to life a splendid book of poetry. Your poems look out at the world, they are trained at the soul, they are pastoral and intellectual, they bristle and praise — they are sublime. Of a Feather. Poems by Michael Daley. Empty Bowl Press. Paperback, 2. 01. ISBN: 9. 78- 0- 9. Review by J. Glenn Evans. This latest collection, Of a Feather, by Michael Daley is a gift to anyone who wants to live in peace with nature. The poet’s voice is consistent, honest, compassionate, quiet, and comprehensible.
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