reviews

Wet Shoe Adventures... Author:  David M. Carroll I’ve got a new favorite superhero.    You may never have heard of him as he’s doesn’t inhabit the DC Comics or Marvel worlds and has never appeared in any summer blockbusters.  But whether he’s wearing his squishy wet sneakers or his chest high wading suit, the enigmatic Swampwalker is heroic in ways sure to astound mere mortals.  Like an Aquaman for freshwater, David M. Carroll – as he’s known when he’s on dry ground – spends most days out exploring wetlands in his New Hampshire homeland.  An acclaimed author and illustrator, he published [...]

Projectile Poetry... Author:  Billy Collins When he published Ballistics in 2008, Billy Collins had already been in the poetry business for four decades, written several best-sellers, won numerous awards and served as US Poet Laureate from 2001-2003.  He didn’t have anything to prove.  But while lesser mortals slowly watch their powers dwindle as they enter their senior years, Collins seems to be getting better with age and the 55 poems in this collection provide all the necessary evidence. I’ve enjoyed Collins’ work in the past – The Art of Drowning (1995) and Horoscopes for the Dead (2011) – and this [...]