Nichole Sealey
Northwestern University Press
Evanston, IL
(c)2016
The introduction to this tiny collection by Chris Abani is brilliant in its own right. The first poem for me that excited my poetry taste buds is the poem "Clue". Every poem in this 23 page collection is brilliant. Oh my god even!
Karen Donovan
The Sow's Ear 2019 Chapbook Competition Winner
(c)2020
I am as impressed the artwork, Apart Accordion, (2012) by Todd McClellan as I am by the poetry in this fine little collection. Track this one down and read it !
Janet Rumpf
Self Published
This chapbook has local flavor with all the scents creating a bouquet good enough to consume. If, of course, one knew the area being described. It's a labor of love from someone who loved the land and the labor and the town and its people.
Mariflo Stephens
Finishing Line Press
(c) 2019
Very thin collection. Another collection of poetry looking back at a life lived.
Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Slipstream
(c)2021
Narrative personal poetry collection. Nothing wrong with the poems at all but I am weary of all the "first personal singular" throughout. Also, I am not certain that all animals do want the same things.
Hugh Pendexter III
Armstrong State College
Savannah, GA
(c)1994
Staple-bound larger format chapbook. 48 pages. Credited listed on back cover (never saw that before)
Mao Penha
St. Thomas Graphics
Virgin Islands
(c)1984
Wheelchair bound, Mao Penha had this book released in 1984. His is an unfortunate and tragic story and yet he has, as of 2005, made the best of a truly terrible situation.
Ruth Messenger
The Partridge Press
Hudson, OH
(c) 1981
Illustrations by Janet Child. Staple bound collection of island poems. The author had a number of chapbooks published by this printer in the 1970s, apparently, and this was one assembled from some previously published work suggested by the subtitle of the book, "selected poems". There is an address for the author to the person who bought the copy from her and the address is in the Virgin Islands.
