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Lightness of being (poems), by t. kilgore splake

victor January 1, 2023 October 31, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Review by Mack Hassler I think there is no argument that our writers who set themselves up as our poets are the real forerunners in language development.  Storytellers entertain us, historians order and give us useful general ideas, comic tone writers defend us against the many predators that lurk in…

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The Marsh King’s Daughter   By Karen Dionne.

victor December 25, 2022 December 17, 2022Uncategorized Karen Dionne, Mack Hassler 0

Review by Mack Hassler I think a writer develops a kind of cockiness that is helpful when he or she is accepted by the “teams” of publication in a culture.  The great poet Virgil was close to the Emperor Augustus.  Writers need patrons and mentors, and they need the teamwork…

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Piney woods (poems), chapbook by t.  kilgore splake

victor December 20, 2022 October 10, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Review by Mack Hassler  This is my third review in six months of the work of this trickster with the Vonnegut-stolen name (t. kilgore splake) in the context of the “new literature” of the UP, and I think finally I begin to see clearly the profound loneliness of his chosen…

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The Ski Jumpers: A Novel by Peter Geye

victor December 10, 2022 September 1, 2022Action & Adventure Mack Hassler 0

Review by Mack Hassler One of our great origin texts Genesis speaks of “giants in the earth” (chapter 6, I recall) prior to its own set of stories.  These ancient “fathers” may have included the light dinosaur flyers.  Some of the champion ski jumpers apparently make use of their trim…

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150th Jubilee/ St Joseph Church/ Lake Linden, MI.  Compiled by Deborah K. Frontiera.

victor October 20, 2022 July 18, 2022History Deborah K. Frontiera, Keweenaw, Lake Linden, Mack Hassler 0

Review by Mack Hassler Deborah K. Frontiera is a major voice in the writing of a UP literature, and I have been very interested in most of her work across several genres.  She keeps trying new things.  But history is a hard genre to get right.  History is all we…

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The Constipated Elephant: A Mystery at Pennington House, by A. Jay

victor July 25, 2022 June 7, 2022Fiction / Mystery, Humor A. Jay, Mack Hassler 1

Review by Mack Hassler The Constipated Elephant: A Mystery at Pennington House by A. Jay may be one of the most confused storytelling piece of prose that I have read.  The emphasis on character and on the apparatus of the novel as “fantasy” rather than just history, however, makes it…

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Clutch (2022),  edited by Robert M. Zoschke,

victor July 1, 2022 April 24, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 1

Sons and Fathers in a New Place Review by Mack Hassler “ … in words begin responsibilities.” Louis Ginsberg to his son Allen Ginsberg in Dharma Lion (St Martin’s Press, 1992), 309. It is exciting to discover the Beat Generation in UP literature far from the Bay Area of the…

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Rain of Stars, Poems by Kathleen Carlton Johnson, Traprock Press (2022)

victor June 20, 2022 June 7, 2022Poetry Kathleen Carlton Johnson, Mack Hassler 0

The Academy We Need Review by Mack Hassler In reading this solid new chapbook of poems by a fine poet, whom I had not heard of before, it is clear that being from Copper Country (Laurium) need not confine one to local color work.  Johnson makes use of ideas, images…

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Old Reliable: Collection of Poems (2022) by T. Kilgore Splake

victor June 10, 2022 April 24, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Trout Fishing in our Own Lake Review by Mack Hassler Like many serious writers, this poet tinkers with his name for literary purposes.  He invents an identity that links his work to the clever science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut (Kilgore Trout) as well as to the Kerouac-type Beat writer Richard…

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Life Beyond Shadows by t. kilgore splake

victor May 25, 2022 June 7, 2022Poetry Mack Hassler, T. Kilgore Splake 0

Life beyond shadows, poems by t. kilgore splake (Shoe Music Press, 2021); In Other Days, Roger Craik (BlazeVox Books, 2022) Haiku and Winnie-the-Pooh Review by Mack Hassler My friend and colleague, Roger Craik, has a very nice poem on A.A. Milne in the new collection of his poems In Other…

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To Build a Tunnel by Deborah K Frontiera (

victor May 10, 2022 June 7, 2022Young Adult / Fantasy Deborah K. Frontiera, Mack Hassler 0

To Build a Tunnel by Deborah K Frontiera (originally published 2004) as volume one of The Chronicles of Henry Roach-Dairier From Fandom to Full Cultural Foundation Review by Mack Hassler In modern times, we often label this sort of enthusiastic imitation of types “fandom” as in science fiction fandom or…

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