Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

For years now the genius of Jorie Graham's headlong, nigh logorrheic style has been to simultaneously court and deny the identity of the poetic line, allowing potential linear thrust to occupy a ground beyond the line but short of the paragraph. In Sea Change that compromise takes form as a margin-to-margin mass of words counterpoised (or transfixed) by a series of shorter lines running in a slender ... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

Much like Sylvia Plath or Edgar Allan Poe, Cole's poetry is drenched in the occult of the everyday. These poems confront grief and rage head on, whether directed toward memory ("Mimosa Sensitiva") or reality ("To the Forty-third President.") This Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet (for Middle Earth) has a truly fascinating voice, one that borders the mystical baroque but is thoroughly contemporary.

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

The third and final collection from the late founder and director of the Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars, this is one of the finest books of poetry published in the past decade. Full disclosure: I was a student of Liam's at Bennington and I know I wouldn't be the poet I am today without his guidance. Liam is a master of the line and the tercet (favored by William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens at... read more>>>