CCLaP Fridays: Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, by Mike Madrid
This week I review Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, by Mike Madrid, about the lost villainesses of Golden Age comics. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, by Mike Madrid
This week I review Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, by Mike Madrid, about the lost villainesses of Golden Age comics. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, by Mike Madrid
Continuing with this week’s theme, I’ll be looking at Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, Book Two). The book follows fast on the heels of Crossover, where we are introduced Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial human and former super-soldier of The League. Continue reading On Being Human Redux: Breakaway (Cassandra Kresnov, Book Two), by Joel Shepherd
Pat Buchanan wrote a new book. It’s about Nixon’s 1968 campaign for the presidency. Continue reading The Greatest Comeback, by Patrick J. Buchanan
“The Red List” by Stephen Cushman, like an Internet web search, is a free associative romp. Continue reading The Red List, by Stephen Cushman
This week I review “Muscle Cars,” by Stephen G. Eoannou, a short story collection that follows the lives of inarticulate misfits in the Buffalo, NY area. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Muscle Cars, by Stephen G. Eoannou
This week I review “Taxidermy Art” by Robert Marbury, an exploration of the pop surrealist world of rogue taxidermy. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Taxidermy Art, by Robert Marbury
“An Epistemology of the Flesh,” by Daniel Klawitter, is a wonderful collection of poems simple and profound. Continue reading An Epistemology of Flesh, by Daniel Klawitter
This week I review “By Way of Water,” by Charlotte Gullick, about a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses living in timber country in the Seventies. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: By Way of Water, by Charlotte Gullick
This week I review Predator, by Richard Whittle, about the development and deployment of the Predator drone. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Predator: the Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution, by Richard Whittle
Lisa Marie Basile’s “Apocryphal” exists in that Nabokovian twilight between childhood and adulthood. Between these realms one confronts monsters and the monolithic oppression of tradition. This is “Alice in Wonderland” re-imagined as a harrowing nightmare journey, a poodle-skirted damsel thrown into the jaws of a slavering beast, who may be the speaker’s father. What remains are fragments, memories, and fantasies strewn about or reconfigured. Continue reading Apocryphal by Lisa Marie Basile @ thethepoetryblog