Reviews from Cider Press Review
In The Floating Bridge, David Shumate vanquishes once and for all the notion that the prose poem is somehow inherently ‘not a real poem.’ This collection exhibits a sustained level of innate lyricism and imagism rarely seen even in conventional lyric free verse. They are densely concentrated distillations of minute moments in time, space,...
It is, at first, incredibly difficult to give Gray Jacobik's Little Boy Blue the time it deserves. One long poem separated into a series of "movements," this "memoir in verse" about a mother's relationship with her bipolar son shatters any lingering definitions of confessional poetry or memoir, going beyond both to create a book...
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