A book review of Hugging This Rock

Eric Chandler is a former F-16 fighter pilot. He endured three deployments to Iraq and one deployment to Afghanistan.  Eric offers us that higher view of our earth bound lives. His gift of focusing on what is important to know, what is best to ignore, and what is important to share, is given to us poem by poem. This is Eric Chandler’s first book of poetry.  Bravo Zulu.

Middle West Press LLC. 2017. 106 pages.

A book review of Welcome To FOB HAIKU

This collection of war poetry by Randy Brown leverages both humor and haiku. The author does his best to demystify the process and jargon of war. The broken places in my own mind are stronger and calmer now that I’ve read this book of war poetry. Thank you, Randy Brown.

Middle West Press LLC. 2015. 81 pages.

A book review of One Breath

The poetry of Catherine Clark-Sayles allows us intimate access into two parts of her life – her daily practice of medicine and her observations as a skilled poet. Dr. Clark-Sayles’s book of poetry begins with her mil-brat childhood, progresses to her time at medical school, continues with her daily acts of practicing medicine, and ends with her and her patients coping with death. Death rounds out the four corners of this excellent first book of poetry.

Tebot Bach. 2008. 61 pages.