My Shtetl by Robert Cooperman
March 24, 2010
Open to any poem in Robert Cooperman's My Shtetl and be so delighted you won't want to put the book down. Much more comes alive here than one man s childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, its Yiddish flavors, its tales of a family of American Jews who don t look, no different from real folks. He may have ...
Getting By by Gary Lark
October 1, 2009
These are poems of fierce candor and compassion. In blunt, plain-spoken language, they chronicle a life lived on the fringes: a rural Oregon boyhood and a working life spent variously as a laborer, a janitor, a hospital orderly, a National Guardsman, an outreach librarian . . . With precise detai...
Octopus by Tom C. Hunley
September 1, 2008
I don't know if this book, Octopus, has eight arms but it has several: tender but completely unsentimental poems about children and marriage; angry poems and poems of deep gratitude; poems both comic and dark (often simultaneously); and maybe most of all a clear, original, passionate American voi...
Cut River by Amy McInnis
February 1, 2007
I get the same pleasure from reading Amy McInnis's Cut River that I do from looking at the intricate construction of a bird's nest, or in hearing a hidden vireo singing at the top of a tree; her poems have that same unerring now-ness and clarity. "The woods should have a different name at night, some...
Interstices by Laurelyn Whitt
May 1, 2006
Laurelyn Whitt's poems have appeared in various journals, including The Spoon River Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, The Malahat Review, and Poetry Canada Review. She is the author of two prize-winning chapbooks, Words for Relocation (Will Hall Press, 2001) and a long dream of difference (Frith Press...
Gutter Flowers by Don Welch
August 1, 2005
Don Welch moves among the poor like a modern day Whitman who has mastered the fine art of pruning. The poor, he says, "need the dump and truck of love / to walk on too." With a minimum of words he evokes a maximum of feelings and sympathies. The rest of us need the poet's words to bring us those plac...
Alvin Turner as Farmer by William Kloefkorn
March 24, 2005
It was 1972 when Alvin Turner first ambled onto the page and charmed his way into the hearts of readers. The voice behind the mask belonged to William Kloefkorn, first-book poet and assistant professor at a small Methodist university on the Plains. Alvin Turner As Farmer was an instant success. ...
The Great American Road Show
October 1, 2003
Logan House is pleased to announce the publication of The Great American Road Show, an anthology of the work of nineteen gifted young poets. Diverse in sensitivity and sensibility, the voices and visions of these poems make it clear that poetry is alive and well among the first generation to come o...
Frankenstein Was A Negro by Charles Fort
February 1, 2002
Frankenstein Was A Negro is a lyrical psalm--it sings the blues and has the scat and soul of the Cotton Club. It's a testament to the true working class--hands tattered and torn; eye squinting bright. Reminiscent of Baudelaire, father of the prose poem, this collection mesmerizes and haunts and b...
Disciples of an Uncertain Season and Other Poems by Larry Holland
September 1, 2001
At the time of Larry Holland's death in March of 1999, Disciples of an Uncertain Season, published just the fall before, had virtually sold out. This volume reprints Disciples in its entirety with the addition of a number of poems previously published available only in magazines and journals. An i...
The Logan House Anthology of 21st Century American Poetry
September 1, 2001
The many voices in this collection signal the range, richness, and diversity that is American Poetry. With no one idiom, no one landscape, no one "American Experience" to confine the imagination, the poets in this collection speak many tongues, proving the wisdom of Walt Whitman's assertion, in t...
Shadowboxing and Other Stories by William Kloefkorn
January 1, 2001
In this collection of five stories, one of America's master poets delves again into the lives of idiosyncratic and diverse characters of the Plains. William Kloefkorn introduces us to a teen-aged babysitter shadowboxing his way to adulthood, a waitress and the hero who rescues her from her grief, a young c...