Work Tagged With ‘Brian Fanelli’
Mantle by C.S. Carrier (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
H_NGM_N Books $12/ 82 pgs As a poet who started out as a prose writer first, I’ve always been drawn to narrative poetry, work that is character driven and uses some of the tropes of fiction, while … Continue reading
The New Arcana, by John Amen and Daniel Y. Harris (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
NYQ Books 109 pages/$14.95 Too often, poetry is reduced to long-winded lectures in a classroom or pages in obscure literary journals. It’s rare to find poets willing to joke about what the process has become and the race within … Continue reading
Water-Rites by Ann E. Michael (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
Brick Road Poetry Press 112 pages $15.95 Over the last few years, the world has faced multiple natural disasters caused by extreme weather and rising temperatures. This most recent summer, the United States suffered severe drought, the … Continue reading
American Poet by Jeff Vande Zande (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
Bottom Dog Press 160 pages, $18 American Poet is a novel filled with scenes that are all too familiar to anyone involved in a local poetry community. Jeff Vande Zande successfully depicts awkward open mic nights, workshops, and competitive … Continue reading
Sweet Nothing by Nate Pritts (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
Lowbrow Press 107 pages, $13  American poet and critic Ezra Pound once described a poetic image as something that should capture an emotional and intellectual complex in an instant of time. Nate Pritts’ latest collection of poems, Sweet Nothing, is … Continue reading
L’Vis Lives! by Kevin Coval (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
Haymarket Books 103 pages, $16 Renowned poet Patricia Smith writes in the introduction to Kevin Coval’s newest collection of poems, L’Vis Lives, that his latest offering is a “relentless book, brave and uncomfortable.†Indeed, Coval’s collection is brave and forceful … Continue reading