Tag: Michael Gillan Maxwell

  • Dust Bunny City, prose poems by Bud Smith, reviewed by Michael Gillan Maxwell

    Dust Bunny City, prose poems by Bud Smith, reviewed by Michael Gillan Maxwell

    Dust Bunny City, Bud Smith’s latest collection of prose poems, is a wonderful collaboration with his wife, Rae Buleri, who illustrated the book. Organized in two sections, Tic Tac Toe and Orange Peel, the pieces unfold in a deliberate story arc sequenced like songs on a vinyl album. An album you’d flip over and listen…

  • Poetry Review: Michael Gillan Maxwell Reads This Wasted Land by Marc Vincenz

    Poetry Review: Michael Gillan Maxwell Reads This Wasted Land by Marc Vincenz

    “And Ezra Pound and T. S. EliotFighting in the captain’s towerWhile calypso singers laugh at theAnd fishermen hold flowers” Desolation Row ~ Bob Dylan 1965 This Wasted Land is a ponderous tome indeed. I say that because it truly caused me to ponder, and I haven’t stopped pondering since I read the 902-line poem for the…