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Elizabeth Alexander — The Light of the World (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 24, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir

Elizabeth Alexander crafts an elegiac memoir and tribute to her late husband, Ficre Ghebreyesus, in The Light of the World. In many ways their marriage was typical. First, they had a meet-cute, then some dating and relocating, then wedding and kids. Still, the...

Book Review: [Dis] Connected: Poems & Stories of Connection and Otherwise, Volume Two

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 25, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Editor and publisher Michelle Halket showcases work from ten poets in [Dis]Connected: Poems & Stories of Connection and Otherwise Volume 2. Each of the ten poets submitted three poems, which are interspersed between short stories from the same writers. Halket...

Book Review: Winter Hours by Mary Oliver

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 19, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Mary Oliver is widely accepted as a master of the written word. Before her death in 2019, she published regularly and with plenty of acclaim. Winter Hours was published in 2000, in what might be considered a simpler American time.Yet, Oliver keeps her writing simple...

Book Review: Grief is a Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 6, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Max Porter takes grief and gives it the face of a crow in Grief is a Thing with Feathers. You think I mean figuratively. But no, in this prose poem slash novel, there is literally a Crow character. The less fantastical characters are a dad with two sons, whose mom and...

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