No Seed Which Dies Remains Alone
The Locust Years By Paul J. Pastor. Wiseblood Books, 2025. Paperback, 129 pages, $20. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”...
Words from the Hearth
Home Songs By Sarah Reardon. Resource Publications, 2025. Paperback, 46 pages, $6. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Sarah Reardon’s Home Songs, a collection of twenty poems about marriage and family life (seven of which were previously published individually), has...
Enchanting Criticism: Dana Gioia as Literary Critic
Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays By Dana Gioia. Paul Dry Books, 2024. Paperback, 272 pages, $21.95. Reviewed by Oliver Spivey. In his essay titled “Reading,” W. H. Auden sets forth what he views as the special duties of the literary critic: What is the function...
Man’s Exposed Condition in a World of Severe Conflict
Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946-1953 Czeslaw Milosz. Ecco, 2025. Hardcover, 160 pages, $28. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. When Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980, he was introduced as a writer “who with uncompromising clearsightedness voices...
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"No one...takes poetic hairpin turns at speed like Majmudar does. His poems are full of sonic swerves and surprises..."