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A Gyroscope Review Review: The THIRD VOICE: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration by Eric Greinke Presa Press, 84 pages, $13.95 Date of Publication: November 1, 2017 If a poet has lost the joy of wordplay, I suggest that a lively collaboration may be the antidote. -Eric Greinke Did you ever sit at the […]
Enter Here: poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher. Published by KYSO Flash Press, Seattle, 2017. Soft cover, 112 p., $18.00. In January of 2016, Gyroscope Review published an interview with Los Angeles poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher. Rhone Fancher’s unapologetic, sharp work graced the pages of our issue 16-1 and I’ve been enchanted with her […]
Book Review – Billy Collins “Ballistics” Ballistics by Billy Collins Random House 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6491-5 An interesting book of poetry from former poet laureate Billy Collins (2001-2003) is titled “Ballistics”, perhaps as a warning to the reader that a careful analysis is in order. Wikipedia defines ballistics as “the science of mechanics […]
One of the ongoing discussions in poetry is whether poems are accessible, a word that has become despised. But Billy Collins put it well in his introduction to 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (New York: Random House, 2005) when he wrote about how he chose poems for that anthology: ….a preference for…poems that […]