Ecstasy reads like a film, shot on an iPhone, bone-crushing and mesmerizing. Dimitrov is THE contemporary poet, and his work is unforgettably original.
Ecstasy: Poems by Alex Dimitrov, (List Price: $29, Knopf, 9780593802922, April 2025)
Reviewed by Emily Tarr, Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama
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This collection is a welcomed haunting, visceral and animal, an aching in your bones no matter how tenderly you’re held. Some of my favorites read like a whispered denunciation, so deeply intimate and all the more powerful, as though excavating the self, a history, and society itself with a partner rather than an audience. Both rooted in place and observed from a distance, these poems balance rich imagery with the complexity of memory, the language nearing the ethereal.
Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates, (List Price: $16.95, Tin House Books, 9781953534644, January 2023)
Reviewed by Miranda Sanchez, Epilogue: Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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In Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, you can truly feel what she felt as she wrote these poems. It is about the ups and downs of a breakup and learning to love yourself by yourself. It is a beautiful collection of poems.
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, (List Price: $19.99, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 9781449496364, September 2018)
Reviewed by Alex Reno, The Blytheville Book Company in Blytheville, Arkansas
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