Volume 35, Issue 1
Spring 2018
Copyright © 2018 by
The Endicott Review
Softbound, 68 pages, no
price provided
Review by Zvi A. Sesling
One often hears of the
talented writers and artists in the Ivy League and other large
colleges. However, at Endicott College there is enough talent to
satisfy most aficionados.
Their 2018 Spring Issue
is loaded with fine poetry, wonderful art and photography.
Take Dani Comorre’s I
am… in which the author tells you their
persona – or does not tell you:
I am…
a scientist forced to write
poetry that might actually make sense
the brim of a hat that can be
manipulated
bent or straightened forward
or backward
the sugar at the bottom of
your coffee
too sweet you can’t drink
the last sip
as stable as a three-legged
chair
a bicycle with square wheels
the rainbow coming from the
pot of gold
the college student too old
to be young but too young to be old
the one that’s too much,
but is never enough
You can see the
potential in this poet and it will be interesting to see how the poet
will write this again and again in 10, 20 or30 years.
Rebecca Kenneally, a faculty member,
observes nature. Here is her short poem Celebration
which celebrates what many people would
abhor.
The spiders came out in the
night
and left streamers of silver
draped delicately over leaf
and stem,
over goldenrod and birch.
I know the party wasn’t for
me,
but I was honored all the
same.
There are some other
poems, for example, Sunflowers
by Olivia Perez-O’Dess in which love and hate merge into love.
There is also Symphony of Nature in
which Dan Calnan ( The Ibbetson Street Press/Endicott College Young Poet for 2018), questions-- then reaches a conclusion for readers to
contemplate. While both of these poems are too long to reproduce
here, getting the publication will give readers the chance to read
these and other poems see wonderful visual arts, among which are
photos by Sydney Kimball and Mackenzie Corey, Jeff Thor, Jenna
Valentine and an eerie one by Laura Cunningham. Some of the art
works are excellent examples of photo-realism in which art can be
easily compared to photographs. These include works such as Abbey
Laurin’s humorous presentation of a woman tying a knot in a
headband, Abigail Suchocki’s suggestive girl eating what appears to
be a carrot and Ben Dages portrait of a male.
There are many other writings
worth reading and art and photographs worth viewing. Hopefully the
college will put them on exhibit for the public to enjoy.
_________________________________________
Zvi A. Sesling
Reviewer for Boston
Small Press and Poetry Scene
Author, The
Lynching of Leo Frank
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