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Oxbow Kazoo by John Olson. First Intensity Press, $12. Reviewed by Matthew W. Schmeer Since Christopher North first coined the term in his ...

Sundays on the Phone by Mark Rudman. Wesleyan. Reviewed by Daniel Sofaer Readers expecting a mood of ease and hominess, of a quiet Sunday c...

Parallel Play by Stephen Burt. Graywolf. Reviewed by Mike Smith Writing on Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell observed that “it is impossible t...

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon by Mary Jo Bang. Grove Press. Reviewed by Donna Stonecipher Curiouser and curiouser. That’s the trajectory o...

Ed Davis SOFT, CUDDLY, and LASHED TO THE FRONT OF A TRUCK Although they're officially forbidden, you might see one on trash day if you...

Books & chapbooks reviewed on the Verse site in 2005: Overboard by Beth Anderson Selected Prose by John Ashbery Backroads To Far Towns:...

Ed Davis THE WEARINESS OF EXPERTISE It’s getting cold. Consumers will feel the pinch this winter. Soon, we’ll pay dearly for our pantyhose a...

Political Cactus Poems by Jonathan Skinner. Palm Press. Reviewed by Chris Pusateri Among the most difficult tasks facing an emerging poet i...

Ancient Capital of Images by John Mateer. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Reviewed by Mani Rao John Mateer’s poems visit the scene after viole...

Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen. Effing Press, $7. Reviewed by Nikki Widner Hoa Nguyen's latest chapbook has the same affect that small picture...

The Window Ordered To Be Made by Brian Kim Stefans. A Rest Press. Reviewed by Mark Mendoza With a new book ( What Does It Matter ) appearin...

: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics (Georgia, $24.95) includes cd with poems by Steve McCaffery, Christian Bok (doing Kurt Schwitters...

The new issue of Verse is out. It includes an interview with Mary Jo Bang & poems by Charles Simic Tomaz Salamun René Char Charles Wrig...

Coconut #1. Reviewed by Teresa M. Pfeifer When you arrive, Dear Reader, you will want to laugh. Maybe it is that big red coconut, but Bruce...

The Singing Fish by Peter Markus. Calamari Press, $10. Reviewed by Andrew Richmond What I want to do is associate words so they produce a c...

Watermark by Jacquelyn Pope. Marsh Hawk Press, $12.95. Reviewed by Emily Taylor Merriman Jacquelyn Pope's first book of poetry, Waterma...

First Intensity: a magazine of new writing , #19. $14. Reviewed by Heidi Lynn Staples The dream people need me and I need them. They come an...

In the absent everyday by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa. Apogee Press. Reviewed by Joshua Marie Wilkinson In Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s new book, In t...

With all the talk of the latest Best American Poetry , edited by Paul Muldoon, Verse would like to call attention to another BAP edited by ...

The Tiny #1, edited by Gina Myers & Gabriella Torres. $8. Reviewed by Summer Block New York may be a sprawling metropolis, but its new ...