Here's a review of Upon Arrival.
I don't know how to judge these things (what with the subjectivity factor and all), but I think this is mostly pretty fair and at times downright nice.
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Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright, published 2010
Black Ocean, 2006
Chapbook, MaCaHu Press, 2009
e-Chap co-authored w/Mathias Svalina, Scantily Clad Press, 2008
Fuori Editions, 2002 (out of print)
"...The sky/ never fills with any/ leftover flying." -Li-Young Lee, from Praise Them
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- Paula Cisewski is, among other things, the author of the books listed below and a co-founder of JoyFace Poetry & Arts Collective. She is serving as the 2013 host of the Banfill-Locke Reading Series.
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Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright, published 2010
Upon Arrival
Black Ocean, 2006
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Chapbook, MaCaHu Press, 2009
Or Else What Asked the Flame
e-Chap co-authored w/Mathias Svalina, Scantily Clad Press, 2008
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Fuori Editions, 2002 (out of print)
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5 comments:
Ooh, how exciting! I would definitely say that's positive overall, and the criticism is well thought-out. (Don't necessarily agree with him, but he's not full of shit, which is nice.) I would be delighted to get a review like that. But first, I'd have to write something. You rock.
Thanks, Kate! I agree. The only part that seems maybe arbitrary is the star system, and I don't think I think that solely because I got five of ten stars. (smiley face emoticon here.) Seamus Heaney got five and a half. What? And Marlena Morling's Astoria, which has been HIGHLY recommended to me by two wildly trustworthy sources, got four. And nobody got more than seven on the list I saw. So...
But, gosh, yeah. It does seem like the writer spent some time with the book, and that's really cool.
Crap. I was agreeing about your other comments. Not agreeing that I rock. You rock.
You should agree that you rock!
And I'd forgotten about the star rating by the end of the review. I think telling yourself you're a half-star shy of Seamus Heaney is a good plan.
You both rock. And Upon Arrival is going to be what I give to some peeps for the holidaze .....
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