Juliet Patterson’s The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books, $14.95) strikes a rich, full chord, delivering moments of disjunction as well as high lyric beauty. While sampling or adapting work from a host of sources including Rae Armantrout, Tomaz Salamun, Richard Meier, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, Grey’s Anatomy and The Golden Book of Birds, Juliet Patterson weaves […]
Mercer Bufter
Mercer Bufter: Landscapes I & II by Lesle Lewis
Alice James Books, 2006 When I opened to the Table of Contents of Lesle Lewis’s second book, Landscapes I & II, I received the first in a series of pleasant surprises. There was neither a Section I nor a Section II, but a listing of poems with charming and interesting titles such as “I Love […]