by Michael Julian | Aug 22, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
Jared Carter’s poetry is pure, home-spun Americana, full of small-town people and places in the tradition of Edgar Lee Masters and Sherwood Anderson. For instance the poem “The Undertaker,” is about, well, an undertaker – one who hires men from the local...
by Michael Julian | Aug 12, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, History
Jules Tavernier was a French-educated painter who, in his short life (1844-1889), traveled from Europe, across America, and then to Hawaii where he died at the age of 45, having left behind him hundreds of paintings of his adventures. This reviewer was fortunate...
by Site Owner | Jul 7, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Poetry
By Kofi Awoonor University of Nebraska Press, $19.95, 295 pages Kofi Awoonor was a diplomat, scholar and poet. He was born in Ghana in 1935 and was among those killed in the Nairobi mall terrorist attack in Kenya on September 21, 2013. His poetry is tender, intimate,...