Captain James Fairweather, Whaler and Shipmaster: His Life and Career 1853 - 1933, By His Granddaughter

Nancy Rycroft

Fairweather Books

There is an appealing self-assurance in these poems---a poet is in charge though clearly aware of the slippery nature of experience. The poems tend to be narrative, often containing gratifying twists at the end, as in “He Caught Everything” in which the poet’s ambidextrous father, after we’re told of how he alternated the use of his hands in a variety of ways, the poem concludes with telling how he saved the day in a fire at the expense of both hands. There are many fine poems her: in an intriguing fantasy, “Romeo Gets There Firs,” we see Romeo in the after life waiting for his lover---a fascinating idea which is managed well. “The Fist Wife’s Lament in Late Winter” is a “left-handed elegy,” another fascinating idea in which the first wife speaks of her former husband who has died.

Gathering Sound

Literature & Fiction

Davis, Susan

Poetry

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Juan J. Morales was born in the U.S. but has extended family in Ecuador and Puerto Rico; family stories inspired much of the poems in FRIDAY AND THE YEAR THAT FOLLOWED. Juan received his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2005. His poetry has appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, PoetLore, and War, Literature, and the Arts.

Friday and the Year That Followed

Morales, Juan J.

History & Criticism

Poetry. In the epitaph of his newest book, IN A STONE'S HOLLOW, South African native Freddy Frankel quotes the notebook he kept while enlisted in WWII in 1945, "my dream is to will down the firmament, place in every human soul a star where vengeance lurks." The poetry in this collection gives testament to this dream, giving the reader both an intensely intimate poetic experience and an important historical account of a young South African recruit. Frankel weaves tenderness with cruelty, politics with emotion, beauty with war, utilizing his exquisite technical mastery of language. Divided into three parts [Notes on a War, Hottentot Venus: Poems of Apartheid, and Bound Close on the Naked Vine] the collection comes together as a poignant act, turning the vengeance of war into a star, a beacon of hope for humanity. "The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect"--Vern Rutsala.

In a Stone's Hollow

Frankel, Freddy

Poetry. With clarity and grace John Morrison's HEAVEN OF THE MOMENT brings together the timeless and the particular. Relying on memory, humility, and a trust in the power of precise language, Morrison conjures and explores those moments that define and give meaning to a life. Among those moments, that seem to pass so quickly, in which everything happens and much is lost and found, moments of insight and decision, moments that shape the bonds of love and friendship, Morrison, in these evocative poems, gives us a measure of what matters. John C. Morrison earned his MFA from the University of Alabama and received the 2004 C. Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship from Literary Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including the Seattle Review, Natural Bridge, Cimarron Review, Southern Poetry Review, Good Foot, Poet Lore, The Sycamore Review and Hubbub. His poem "One Hundred Years Ago" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He directs the Writers in the Schools program for Literary Arts, in Portland, Oregon, and also teaches poetry at Washington State University, Vancouver. This is his first collection of poetry.

Heaven of the Moment

Morrison, John C.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. The poetry of Bryan Tso Jones's RAKING THE HOLLOW BONES is haunted by the past, which mingles with the tastes and food of the present and creates a beauty which is light and clear and resonant. Bryan Tso Jones's ancestors, both literal and poetic---his mother is Chinese, his father American---speak in these poems, and Jones honors them with questions, echoes, speculations, and the proper reverence of a true poet: as the poet rakes leaves he identifies with his grandfather's gestures as he planted rice. Bryan Tso Jones's poems have appeared in the Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, the Literary Review, and the Minnesota Review, among others. He has earned an MFA in creative writing and MA in literature from California State University, Chico, and attended the Napa Valley Writers' Conference and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers as a fellowship recipient. He was born in Oceanside, California, and has traveled widely, having visited or lived in Iran, the Philippines, Taiwan, England, Germany, Greece, and recently Australia. He currently makes his home in Chico, California.

Raking the Hollow Bones

Jones, Bryan Tso

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