RHINO Reviews

Volume I No. 7: December, 2018
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My Life on Film

by Helen Degen Cohen
Reviewed by Bill Yarrow

Helen Degen Cohen’s poems are irrepressibly lyrical, and I will miss her voice.

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Ghazal Cosmopolitan

by Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Reviewed by Chloe Martinez

Hashmi accomplishes the admirable double task of complicating the ghazal and simplifying it.

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The Labyrinth

by Saul Steinberg
Reviewed by Anthony Madrid

Prepare to put a bunch of quarters in the “swear jar.”

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No Such Thing as Distance

by Karen Paul Holmes
Reviewed by Susanna Lang

Now the inert body in the casket, with its glamorous makeover, is no longer the real mother …

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Revelations

by Ruben Quesada
Reviewed by Emily Pérez

In Quesada’s poems, the lyric bursts unexpectedly in the narrative …

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Save the Bathwater

by Marina Carreira
Reviewed by DM O’Connor

The collection is an elegy for a disappearance of culture, a letter explaining assimilation, and a family photo album …

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bury it

by sam sax
Reviewed by Ina Cariño

Afraid of what he might become, the speaker recounts a family story …

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Aria and Trumpet Flourish

by Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr
Reviewed by Luisa A. Igloria

Dela Peña’s supple and formally satisfying debut collection abounds in musical motifs …

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Hesiod I & 2

by Glenn M. Most
reviewed by Anthony Madrid

Everybody likes Hesiod without knowing it.