“The Ease of Wind-Filled Wings”: A Review of Luanne Castle’s Rooted and Winged #poetry #bookreview

I always review a book of poetry with some anxiety and exhilaration; anxiety because poetry is in the eye (ear/mind) of the beholder, and exhilaration because poetry is in the eye (ear/mind) of the beholder. I'd argue that I don't know what "good" poetry is, only that if I like it, I like it. That's…

May Wonders Never Cease to Exist

Although I occasionally write poetry, I don't make a fuss about it because I so rarely do it.  And because I'm never quite sure if I should call it poetry.  My poems don't rhyme.  They don't have a recognizable meter or structure (and I don't even know what I mean by that, either).  They don't…

A Different Kind of Book Review: Doll God by Luanne Castle #MondayBlogs #bookreview #poetry

Mary closed the slim volume of poetry and leaned back against the stiff cushions of her couch.  She never was one to read much poetry, except occasionally Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare, whose works had stayed with her all these years since high school.  What was it Dickinson once wrote in a letter?  "If I feel…

Book Review: Dreams of Love. A Poetry Collection by Pamela

Poetry is like art.  I know what I like when I see it, or in the case of a collection of poetry, Dreams of Love, when I read it.  It’s difficult to believe that Pamela has not been writing poetry for years, that she has only recently engaged in the art: Difficult because her poems…