David Rigsbee
NICOLAS CARONE: In Memoriam (1917 – 2010)
By David RigsbeePoet David Rigsbee's The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems was just published this month by NewSouth Books, and his new collection, The Pilot House, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in December.
The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed
By David RigsbeePoetry of a higher order courts two kinds of difficulty. The first is formal, connected with the degrees of ellipsis, or leaving out, that a poem can sustain and still be subject to understanding.
Umbrian Odes
By David RigsbeeStacked stone holds its cutout against the blue. Old window arches are bricked, having been first covered with concrete and that slagged off. Swallows loop from cracks to air and back, and pigeons perched like gargoyles gently into sleepy, perishable sentries.
Carolyn Kizer
By David RigsbeeReaders will be pleased at the sheer size of Kizer’s Cool, Calm, and Collected Poems. After all, we are accustomed to equate care with parsimony. At 400 pages, it will appear that parsimony was not her vice, while care has ever been a virtue.
The Garden of Catherine Blake
By David RigsbeeCloud and earth converge like banners of geese, both undulant, assimilable each to the other.
