New Reviews: Poetry & Drama

Golden Voice narrator Kimberly Farr reflects the shimmering light of Mary Oliver's poetry and amplifies the meaning in her appealing prose. Farr simply gets Oliver's nuance and grace and sound; as narrator, she has a gift for pace and knows just how to intensify and heighten the language. This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the... Read More

Many poets, as they age, start writing more and more about death. Kevin Young, author and narrator of this collection, is only in his mid-50s, but his concern in these works is not only his own death. He thinks about that, of course, but also about the deaths of others and how people deal with the deaths of those they know and love. Young also attends to other issues; poems... Read More