Book Reviews

Fifty years of innovative, creative and inspired poetry

A tome from the Middle Ages, "The Anatomy of the Elder" details the use of the Elder or Elderberry tree as a physic for a raft of illnesses and makes for intriguing reading.

Locke’s verse is delightful and superb, if somewhat irascible. He demonstrates no concern for anyone’s vanity, even his own. And he doesn’t indulge in what-if speculation. He simply sees and feels and expresses what he feels.

Having two separate crimes being investigated individually , you are drawn between the differences of investigation, but also into how family plays a part in the Navajo Nation and in everything thing they do.

Frank Bruni investigates the madness of the college admissions process, and offers a needed new perspective.

Mick Wall has uncovered the definitive Black Sabbath story, along with the solo ride of Ozzy Osbourne in 'Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe.'

The Perfect Game is not a perfect book, but it is a tale that kept this reader happily turning pages.

Ee has given us a war and a world in turmoil. There is darkness and adventure, but also an underlying faith that will hold even in the worst of situations.

Each essay explores what it means to be alive, and feel. In the aggregate, the essays provide over 400 pages of the best reading today. Throughout, we are reminded that both beauty and loss can help us remain whole.

"Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" by Cynthia Clampitt is a beautifully written exploration of the little kernel that could--and did!