Poetry review – DISTANCE TO INFINITY: Charles Rammelkamp commends g emil reutter’s willingness to issue vigorous poetic warnings about dictatorships around the world and especially in the USA
Charles Rammelkamp
Poetry review – GLANDSCAPES: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a grimly frank medical memoir-in-poems by Mickie Kennedy
Poetry review – HAUNT ME: Charles Rammelkamp considers José Enrique Medina’s unusual ways of dealing with grief and loss
Poetry review – EJECT CITY: Charles Rammelkamp considers a fairly dark collection by Jason Morphew
Poetry review – FRANK’S LUNCH SERVICE: Charles Rammelkamp appreciates the sheer physicality of the materials that make up this collection by Frank Rubino Frank’s Lunch Service Frank Rubino Lithic Press, 2025 ISBN: 978-1946-583-413 $20.00, 112 pages
Poetry review – AUGUST 24, 1957 : Charles Rammelkamp follows Robert Cooperman through recollections and reflections stirred by a traumatic childhood incident
Poetry review – THE SCREW CITY POEMS: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys dipping into a comprehensive New & Selected from Richard Vargas
Poetry review – DIAMONDS & RUST: Charles Rammelkamp engages with Catalina Vergara’s love poem both in its original Spanish and as rendered in English by Tiffany Troy
THE KAFKA STUDIES DEPARTMENT: Charles Rammelkamp discovers that Francis Levy’s generally bleak story lines can provoke a surprising amount of laughter
IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE: Charles Rammelkamp follows Tom McAllister’s life story as summarized in a sequence of 42 essays
Poetry review – THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF OPHELIA: Charles Rammelkamp manages to keep up with Robert Cooperman’s extensive re-working of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Poetry review – PANDEMONIUM: Charles Rammelkamp is quite happy to follow Lenny Dellarocca through this selection of imaginative prose-poem narratives
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2025 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry