February 3, 2006

Crying Sky: Poetry & Conversation vol. 1 no. 1 (Spring 2005). 78 pages. $9.

I really didn't like the David Wojahn poems, visually and linewise: "The Language of the old belief, has it perished?" ("Web Prayer for Milosz," 58).

I really did like the William Kemmett poems. "Hedge" reminds me a little of Richard Brautigan in a good way(41).

Unlike many small press journals, the interview with David Wojahn covers 16 pages. Some of the questions are a little softball ["Would you talk a bit about your development as a poet, in terms of your approach to language?"(62)], but at least they didn't edit it down to two or three pages of soundbites.

Poems by David Allen Evans, Alice Fogel, Glenn Freeman, James Haug, Cynthia Huntington, Wm. Kemmett, Leatha Kendrick, Rustin Larson, Cleopatra Mathis, Jack Myers, James Rioux, Betsy Sholl, and David Wojahn.

Crying Sky
W.E Butts and S. Stephanie, eds
164-1 Maple Street
Manchester, NH 03103