Wild Goods By Denise Newman Apogee Press, 2008 Paperback, 66 pages, $14.95 The poet C. D. Wright praises Denise Newman’s (Writing faculty) new book of poems: “Not, what does it mean, but what does it feel like, taste like, smell like to be a lone living being; to give, love, lose, and choose between the heart’s dark woods and the ‘whole worthless sky.’ This is an interior venture, physically undertaken.”
The Number Before Infinity By Zack Rogow Scarlet Tanager Books, 2008 Paperback, 84 pages, $16 Zack Rogow (Writing faculty) presents his sixth book of poetry, this time with a travel theme. Cornelius Eady comments: “I was reminded of young Neruda’s love poems; here is the passion, tempered and informed by the briars and grace of marriage and family.”
Disposed By Steve Dickison Post-Apollo Press, 2007 Paperback, 52 pages, $15 Says Clark Coolidge of Steve Dickison’s (Writing and Literature faculty) new book of poems: “I’m hooked on just how he attaches those jazzical slices of the current dense. Listen here and know that ceaseless connection of the Poem Most High.”
Kodiak Herbal By Caroline Goodwin MaCaHu Press, 2008 Paperback, 20 pages, $10 The first title from MaCaHu Press, founded by Mary Behm-Steinberg and Writing faculty members Caroline Goodwin and Hugh Behm-Steinberg, is a hand-sewn chapbook of five poems, including one based on the life of Goodwin’s Alaskan grandmother.
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