Book Reviews/Poem Reviews
by Izanami Caesar, guest reviewer
Tible of Chapbook: Penelope
Author: Kimberly White (Callifornia)
ISBN:
Printed in: Sacramento, California, USA
Pages:29 pp., Price:: 5$
Received on January 3, 2005, Monday
Posted on January 4, 2005, Tuesday
"After Sacramento poet Kimberly White wrote the poems , "Penelope" and "After the Return", she produced her first chapbook, Penelope. In this imaginative time-shifting account, White narrates interior thoughts of Penelope, legendary wife of Odysseus, King of Ithaca and wondering Greek champion of the Trojan War. Weaver Penelope is not helpless but a lonely Queen awaiting her husband's return from war for twenty years. Busy as a shrewd managing his assets, Penelope's cherished lover, Hermes, their son Pan, helped keep her passionate existence of devoted paganism and witch-doctoring alive, yet divinely vulnerable and stronger than portrayed in Greek mythology or poetry."
The 1st edition of the chapbook Penelope was first published by Kimberly in 2002 at 30 pieces. The second edition of Penelope was printed in 2004. You may order her chapbook by email at [email protected].
Sample poems of Kimberly White will be featured in the Winter 2005 ed. of Muses Review.
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Title of poem: 'I Came Upon A Mountain"
Poet: Mark Stellinga
Rating: 5 olives
Mark Stellinga's poem "I Came Upon A Mountain" was featured in the Fall 2004 ed. of Muses Review. The poem is about mountain climbing. This poem has 7 stanzas and is rhymed.
This poem reveals a grain of truth about life for those who wants to achieve a goal in life or fulfill a dream in life.
The 5th stanza and the 6th stanza states:
"As I embarked I pondered what a man might come to learn.
I wondered, would I reach the top or would I not return.
Plainly, I returned and yes, I made it to the top.
Though often nearly giving up, I'm glad I didn't stop."
The poem reveals there is an inner struggle or an inner psychological conflict when a person tries to achieve his goals or dreams in life. The greatest obstacles to one's persoanl struggle are psychological and physiological.
Psychological obstacles include discouragement, lack of motivation and negative thoughts. Physiological obstacles include lack of energy or strength to endure one's personal struggle.
This poem will serve as inspiration to people who are on their way to achieve their goals or dreams in life. The poem reveals that success in life can be a matter of choice, determination and right motiviation.
This poem is contained in Stellinga's book "Phonetical Imagery". This poem is nominated for the 2004 Muses Review Awards for Poetry as Best Poem of the Year 2004.
Title of Poem: "4 Season"
Poet: Mark Stellinga
Rating : 5 olives
Mark Stellinga's poem '4 Seasons' is featured in the Fall 2004 ed. of Muses Review. This poem is 6 stanzas long with 4 lines for each stanza.
This poem is a vivid description of the four seasons, (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer). This poem is so memorable and so refreshing. The poem starts with the stanza:
"Autumn sheds her brilliant beauty,
painting pictures on the ground.
Twirling leaves of gold and crimson
brush the lawn without a sound.
The poem ends with the stanza:
Kindling fires of gold and crimson
stretching brightly, east to west.
Blazing leaves, again, for Autumn,
Beauty reigns in her success...".
This poem begins with a beautiful stanza and ends with a beautiful stanza. Who cannot forget such a poem if it starts and ends with memorable lines. This poem was published by Mark in his poetry book "Phonetical Imagery" released on November 2004.
This poem is nominated for the 2004 Muses Review Awards for Poetry as the Best Poem of the Year 2004.
by Andrew C. Angus
Title: of Chapbook: "Hemlock Suicide Planned by Well-Dressed Men In Suits"
Poet: LB Sedlacek,(North Carolina)
ISBN:
Printed in:
No. of Pges: 27 pp, Price:
Chapbook received on Nov 17, 2004.
Chapbook review posted on: Jan 2005
This chapbook of LB Sedlacek contains a 27 poem collection that deals with the harsh realities of city life such as divorce, crimes, murder, suicide, corporate environment, etc.
Sedlacek is a poet who is not afraid to write poems about the burning social issues of our time. He is a social commentary who writes his social views in the form of poetry.
His title poem "Hemlock Suicide.... " is about suicide or murder that is made to look like suicide. This is the most shocking poem in his chapbook.
His poem "A Fly's Journey to the Electric Chair" is nominated "Best Poem of the Year 2004" .
More comments on Sedlacek's chapbook will be posted.