Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series
Poetry: All forms & styles
Americana
A Writer’s Portfolio
Larry D. Thomas
THE GUMPTION OF FALLEN SPARROWS
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HAL: HEURISTIC ALGORITHMIC LIBRARY
REVIEWS
HAL’s reviews engage with contemporary chapbooks, pamphlets, and individual collections, treating them as occasions for serious critical attention. These essays consider books not as isolated products, but as living intersections of craft, place, memory, form, and moral imagination. Across works by poets and prose writers associated with O:JA&L and its imprints, the reviews emphasize accessibility without sacrificing intellectual rigor. They attend to how small-press literature carries aesthetic risk, regional texture, and formal experiment into public conversation. Together, the reviews establish a record of attentive reading, situating each work within broader questions of literary value and artistic endurance.
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CORRESPONDENCE ACROSS LANDSCAPES:
Dialogic Poetics, Ecological Imagination, and Relational Masculinity in Wolf Tree and Agave,
a lyric correspondence between Larry D. Thomas and Clarence J. Wolfshohl
A HOWLING AT THE THRESHOLD:
Transformation and Wildness in Wolf by Bruce McRae
A REVIEW
OPTIMAL OR NOT and Other Poems by Heikki Huotari
A REVIEW
THE HINGE OF ATTENTION
A review of The Selborne Haibun, a collection by Gabriel Rosenstock
A STILLNESS IN MOTION
A Review of little prose by David Person
The Shape of What Remains:
Land, Memory, and Moral Weight in TOPOLOGY,
poems by Richard Stimac
A REVIEW
REMEMBERING IN FRAGMENTS: HAIBUN, HAIKU, AND ETHICAL MEMORY
A Review of DUST AND RUST by Taofeek Ayeyemi
THE OUTRUN: Poems by Julie Alden Cullinane
A REVIEW
MIRO’S WARS: Poems by John Brantingham:
A REVIEW
WHERE THE CROW BREATHES BLACK STARS:
Larry D. Thomas and his expansion of the crow archetype as established by Ted Hughes
BAD ROAD AHEAD:
Flash Discourse, Trauma, and Voice in Don Robishaw’s Just Willie Please“
A REVIEW
