by envisionmg | Apr 21, 2021 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry
“This is a book-length poem – a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the...
by envisionmg | Apr 14, 2021 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry
“Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises,...
by envisionmg | Apr 7, 2021 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry
“A powerful work that examines how―even without country or settled identity―a legacy of love can endure. Eavan Boland is considered “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a...
by envisionmg | Apr 7, 2021 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry
“A powerful work that examines how―even without country or settled identity―a legacy of love can endure. Eavan Boland is considered “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a...
by envisionmg | Dec 3, 2020 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“From Nosferatu to Frankenstein’s monster, from Fritz Lang to James Whale, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War. Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of military history,...
by envisionmg | Nov 12, 2020 | Michelle Recommends
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/Cc4ElbJrOwI”] Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role...
