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Tebot Bach is dedicated to strengthening community, promoting literacy, and broadening the audience for poetry by demonstrating through readings, workshops, and. In The Shadow Of The Palms - Iraq Greek Subtitles 4uTwo Views of Merce Cunningham Merce Cunningham Dance Company • Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC • April 16–19, 2009. Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. 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. 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Glenn Evans) Seeded Light by Edward Byrne. Review by Zara Raab)The Signature of All Things - Kenneth Rexroth – DVD from Hen House Studios and Michael C. Ford. (Review by Poets. West)Nevertheless, hello by Christopher Goodrich. Review by Zara Raab)Songs from a Small Universe by Raphael Block. Review by Joseph Zaccardi)Storytelling – A Collection of Poems by Charles Portolano. Review by J. Glenn Evans)Breather by Bruce Dethlefsen. Review by Charles P. Ries)Stars Beyond the Battlesmoke by David D. Horowitz. (By Lana Hechtman Ayers and William Kupinse)Selected Poems 1. Eric Greinke. (Review by Dave Wheeler)Children of Gravity by Laurie Blauner. Review by Cory Hutzell)An Empty House: Korean American Poetry edited by Yearn Hong Choi, Ph. D. (Review by J. 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 Tomás Gayton (From a letter to the author by Richard Lemm)5 SPEED by Klyd Watkins (Review by Charles Ries)Of One and Many Worlds by Rayn. Roberts (Review by Barbara Evans)Driven into the Shade by Brandon Cesmat (Review by James Downs)d. Edited by Larry Smith & Ingrid Swanberg (Review by Charles Ries)Near Occasions of Sin by Louis Mc. Kee (Review By Charles P. 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 "The Valley of the Moon" by Harley Brumbaugh (Review by Jack R. 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 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. She composes music and art — these poems swirl and swing, move forward and backward between form and freeform. 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. Congregation,” act 2 if you will, is a gathering, a place of meeting in a town square. 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… throw a cherry bomb into a bat cave.” Again an indictment of humanity for its callous treatment of living beings as she demonstrates how all life can feel pain; this essential knowledge is imputed in her poems and important to our own survival. Follett mingles the homely with the beautiful; her poems are often prayer- like in the way they capture us with their subtle and striking effects. 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. Images from one poem reappear later in others, threading together through conversation and intimacy. Interlude: At this mid- point I’d like to offer my view of the book’s cover design and of the art, consisting of CB Follett’s photographs; they are a collage set against a background of gray morphing into muted blue; there are trees at the bottom in a landscape awash in the gray of waiting; and in the upper half are four photographic panels: the trunks of aspens in Bryce Canyon, a crow perched on a willow in winter, a Flat- Coated Retriever named Koda, and red rock hoodoos in Southern Utah, all under the marquee- like title Quatrefoil, the subterranean heart of this collection. 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. At home is good news,” but the best shoes, the ones hoped for are the shoes that “…lead to jacket and leash. These are the shoes of happiness. There are many such delicious poems at the start and end of this section.
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