Category: Book Reviews

Sound is more of an experience than a story. It looks at moments in Cincy’s life multidimensionally, like a song. “Sound,” by T.M. Wolf, is the story of Cincy Styles’ summer back home in New Jersey after dropping out of grad school. He takes a job as a boatyard shift manager with a cast of colorful Read More

First, this, from James Merrill‘s great poem “The Thousand and Second Night:” “Form’s what affirms.” If Merrill is right, then Alice Jones‘ Plunge (Apogee) is superlatively affirmative. Jones’ fourth collection reads as if chiseled from stone, or, why not, diamond. That is, from a formal standpoint, the slimmish volume is perfect. The poet weaves a pattern Read More