Read Alexander Cigale’s astute review of Marc Vincenz’s No More Animal Poems (White Pine Press) in Evergreen Review! Here’s an excerpt:

“Marc Vincenz’s No More Animal Poems is not so much a Cassandra cry in advance of impending ecological disaster as a paean to a prelapsarian world in which humans and animals intermix. Given the annotated list of the history of species extinction at the end of the book, further extinction is all but assured. Vincenz’s book, marked by a sarcastically wry, whimsical, wistful tone, insinuates a mythic dimension. In evoking a charmed world of fairies, shape-shifting, and anthropomorphism, it neither preaches nor predicts, but instead looks back in wonder. In a sense, the future it presents is an atemporal one: this may either be a post-apocalypse, an afterlife, or a place forgotten by time. No matter: in the end was the beginning, it says, and vice versa.”

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Read the rest of the review HERE.