Bøker av Michael Hathaway

The Cherry Flames, a book of poems by Benjamin Rosenbush is a poetry collection that leaves one hushed in thought and reverie. In these stressful times, we all need to find a place just to be, and Rosenbush's poems speak--with an energetic calming-- to the quietest part of oneself. The book is an introspective journey: each poem is personal, yet inviting and universal, like smooth and imagistic pathways for all to enjoy. Read it and enjoy it too!

Chiron Review #121, spring, 2021. Chiron Review presents contemporary writing, interviews and artwork in a perfect bound, softcover format. Our 30+ years have been shaped by a search for true voices, offering the widest range of style and expression. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, William Stafford, Marge Piercy, Sherman Alexie, Edward Field, Elizabeth Swados, Albert Huffstickler, Lyn Lifshin, Erskine Caldwell, Gerald Locklin, James Broughton, Wanda Coleman, Todd Moore, Charles Plymell and a host of others, well-known and new.

Chiron Review #126 (summer 2022) is devoted to work by Vietnam vets. Andrew Gettler did much of the work of assembling the issue. There are poems, fiction, frank book reviews by experts. This issue amounts to a full report of the achievement of the Vietnam veteran poets active in the small presses, drawing on years of passionate involvement in that scene by Andrew Gettler. The poets represented form a community of individuals in touch with each other's work, not just a gang of logrollers. There is fine sensibility consistent throughout the book, that has to do with remaining faithful to some rather vivid early experiences while trying not to just moan on about blood and guts. This matter is discussed with taste and intelligence and experience in the book reviews. This issue would be an excellent teaching text for any course on the literature of the war, and richly deserves to be developed into a textbook.

"Chiron Review has become, among other things, a small "outpost" of a refreshing movement in American literature. Charles Harper Webb dubbed it Stand-Up Poetry, Ed Ochester called it Neo-Populist Poetry. Whatever it is, it's an unpretentious literature that is accessible beyond the ivory towers of academia and outside the bounds of religious and politically correct restrictions. It celebrates honesty and humor. It also reclaims poetry as an art for the so-called "common" people."

Chiron Review presents contemporary writing, interviews and artwork in a perfect bound, softcover format. Our 30+ years have been shaped by a search for true voices, offering the widest range of style and expression. Contributors have included Charles Bukowski, William Stafford, Marge Piercy, Sherman Alexie, Edward Field, Elizabeth Swados, Albert Huffstickler, Lyn Lifshin, Erskine Caldwell, Gerald Locklin, James Broughton, Wanda Coleman, Todd Moore, Charles Plymell and a host of others, well-known and new.