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Rhino – 2006

2006

Annual

Jeannine Hall Gailey

This year’s bright pink issue of Rhino features, as usual, mostly poetry, with a satisfying section of poetry chapbook and book reviews in the back called “Rhino Reads.” This issue also features a section of poetry in translation. The poetry in Rhino typically flirts with experimentation, drawing in the reader by a thread of emotional energy, lyric power and sometimes, offbeat humor.

This year’s bright pink issue of Rhino features, as usual, mostly poetry, with a satisfying section of poetry chapbook and book reviews in the back called “Rhino Reads.” This issue also features a section of poetry in translation. The poetry in Rhino typically flirts with experimentation, drawing in the reader by a thread of emotional energy, lyric power and sometimes, offbeat humor. There is a strangeness to the content, an unfamiliar subject or approach or a dream-like haze of recounting. Here’s a sample bit from Priscilla Atkins’ prose poem, “I was Telling You About Love”: “…She craved boundaries, ledger lines, a fur coat. She got so she counted clouds and would only eat alone, sitting on the stairs facing south. And, at that, strictly pieces of dry toast cut in squares, while her family stood outside the back door growing gills in the rain.” Kristy Bowen and Rebecca Loudon have standout pieces, not to be missed. Multiple poems in this issue reference science, questions of the cosmos, and mathematics, including Janet Norman Knox’s “Gravity Dog,” Diane Furney’s “Lithium, Chromium,” and Maureen Alsop’s “Finding the Best Mathematician.” This magazine continues to be a source of pleasurable reading, crowded as it is with its offbeat, lyrical voices. [www.rhinopoetry.org]

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