Who's Who Vivid4 reviews Matt Hart Slope Editions, 2006 From the heart of the heart of the hartland + flock of peacocks + REALLY EXCELLENT, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED + Awking yawps             Alibi School2 reviews Jeffrey McDaniel Manic D Press, Inc., 1995 Great performance poetry that's also great on the page. + JEFFREY mcDANIEL is a GENIUS!! More than any other poet I know, Jeffrey McDaniel proves that the phrase "good slam poetry" is NOT an oxymoron. In performance, McDaniel is unforgettable, yet his poetry is every bit as fresh, exciting and powerful on the page as it is read aloud. Jeff knows how to tie both language and logic into ...             Things are Happening (APR Honickman 1st Book Award)4 reviews Joshua Beckman American Poetry Review, 1998 Beckman: The Legend Continues + Things Are Happening + Intense, insightful, and humerous. + exciting imagry and sensitivity             Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series)9 reviews Terrance Hayes Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2005 the next "big thing" + Good + Watch Out for This Poet + Every Poem will mesmerize you... + Muscular Music is Powerful Poetry             Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)17 reviews Richard Siken Yale University Press, 2005 New favorite collection of poems. + Hipster paradise + A scalpel's cut + Sick. Love it. + Perfect             Dancing in Odessa9 reviews Ilya Kaminsky Tupelo Press, 2004 Great poetry still happens + Arresting + Ten stars + Yes to this Dance + A Powerful voice and persistent energy!             Superfecta Clay Matthews Ghost Road Press, 2008 SUPERFECTA examines our relation to time and memory with surprising energy and consistent empathy. The tension between systems and chance connects Clay Matthews' poems, balanced as they are between the abstractions of symbol and the immediacy of language. For Matthews, there is a thin line dividing the body's physicality and the wonder of the mind, where 'The cartography of a rat is the same for ...             Legend Of Light (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)2 reviews Bob Hicok University of Wisconsin Press, 1995 A Banquet for the Soul + The Legend of Light I have often read that literature is food for the mind. If that is so then poetry must be food for the soul and this book a feast for the spirit. Where literature deals with ideas, fantasies and the human condition, poetry deals with the emotions, the spirit; the very qualities that raise us ...             Broken Helix: Poems (First Series: Poetry)1 review Dina Ben-Lev Mid-List Press, 1997 Amazing This collection is simply stunning. Emotionally honest, lyrically intense. This book gives me everything I come to poetry for. Run, do not walk, run to this book.             The Philosopher's Club (New Poets of America)3 reviews Kim Addonizio BOA Editions Ltd., 1993 stunning first collection + I waited to long + AMAZING I came across Addonizio's poetry purely by accident. I had never heard of her (actually, i remember seeing her name on the poet's companion, but i had never read her poetry), and i ran across her at a reading in west chester, pa. and i was stunned by it. i picked up philosopher's club, and wasn't ...             The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World (New Issues Poetry & Prose)3 reviews Paul Guest New Issues Poetry Press, 2003 Dark, haunting + Guest hits right chord + In Case of Rapture Paul Guest writes stark, knifelike poems. Each one is a perfect, shivering cataclysm. Guest's understated voice is a monologue of unraveling, the effect culminating until you're left laughing giddily in a kind of shock. This collection reads sort of like a 94-page "The Second Coming". I think ...             Some Ether: Poems22 reviews Nick Flynn Graywolf Press, 2000 A Great Book + More than a confessional + Great confessional poems + in defense + Stirred             South of Here (New Issues Poetry & Prose)1 review Lydia Melvin New Issues Press Poetry, 2005 masterful first collection What a startling and revealing first collection. Lydia Melvin is an original voice not to be looked over. This collection was a finalist for the Yale Series for a reason. These poems make me want to be a better poet.             American Linden7 reviews Matthew Zapruder Tupelo Press, 2002 GENTLE GIANT + Gritty and lyric in one breath + Fantastic. + A mobile language + The Joys of First Person Singular             Mosquito: Poems (A Tin House New Voice)4 reviews Alex Lemon Tin House Books, 2006 Mosquito + "Mosquito" + One of the great new voices in American Poetry + probing restless through the guts             Superfecta Clay Matthews Ghost Road Press, 2008 SUPERFECTA examines our relation to time and memory with surprising energy and consistent empathy. The tension between systems and chance connects Clay Matthews' poems, balanced as they are between the abstractions of symbol and the immediacy of language. For Matthews, there is a thin line dividing the body's physicality and the wonder of the mind, where 'The cartography of a rat is the same for ...             Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series)9 reviews Terrance Hayes Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2005 the next "big thing" + Good + Watch Out for This Poet + Every Poem will mesmerize you... + Muscular Music is Powerful Poetry             Alibi School2 reviews Jeffrey McDaniel Manic D Press, Inc., 1995 Great performance poetry that's also great on the page. + JEFFREY mcDANIEL is a GENIUS!! More than any other poet I know, Jeffrey McDaniel proves that the phrase "good slam poetry" is NOT an oxymoron. In performance, McDaniel is unforgettable, yet his poetry is every bit as fresh, exciting and powerful on the page as it is read aloud. Jeff knows how to tie both language and logic into ...             Legend Of Light (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry)2 reviews Bob Hicok University of Wisconsin Press, 1995 A Banquet for the Soul + The Legend of Light I have often read that literature is food for the mind. If that is so then poetry must be food for the soul and this book a feast for the spirit. Where literature deals with ideas, fantasies and the human condition, poetry deals with the emotions, the spirit; the very qualities that raise us ...             Things are Happening (APR Honickman 1st Book Award)4 reviews Joshua Beckman American Poetry Review, 1998 Beckman: The Legend Continues + Things Are Happening + Intense, insightful, and humerous. + exciting imagry and sensitivity