Reviewed: The Halo Rule by Teresa Leo. Elixir Press, 2008.
Teresa Leo possesses what a previous generation of critics would have termed an incoherent sensibility. This is not intended to denigrate.… continue reading...
Reviewed: every riven thing by Christian Wiman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 93 pages.
From its hardcover heft and granite-engraved dust jacket (remove the jacket and a black, bible-like, hardback cover is revealed), to its ivory paper stock and black section divider pages (complete with roman numerals blazoned in white), every riven thing announces the solemnity it aims to deliver and does: verses crafted as if with a chisel on stone, the weight of each line falling into the congregation of a hushed readership, organ sounding in the background—
… continue reading...There is no consolation in the thought of God,
he said, slamming another nail
in another house another havoc had half-taken.
