Grace Cavalieri reviews six books of poetry, Rowan Ricardo Philips, The Ground (Ferrar, Straus and Giroux;) Catherine Barnett’s The Game of Boxes (Graywolf;) Dawn McGuire’s The Aphasia Café (IF SF;) Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s The Place I Call Home (NYQ Books;) Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century, edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell ( Wesleyan;) An Individual History by Michael Collier ( W.W. Norton;) and a nonfiction book – her pick for best biography of the year – James Joyce: A New Biography by Gordon Bowker (FSG.)
Read the reviews here: July EXEMPLARS 6-24-12 pdf
Buy the book links:
Buy The Ground
Buy The Aphasia Cafe