Oh my goodness!!! Thank you Esteban Rodríguez & Tupelo Quarterly for this luminous review of my book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. To be read with such sensitivity, generosity, and insight! My poems and I bow deeply in thanks! And now we reach for a box of tissues (and make really loud blowing noises)… 😀❤️😭
Huge THANK YOU to David Ebenbach for this generous review of my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, in the new Asheville Poetry Review, together with Matthew Lippman’s new book, Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, a poet whose work I deeply adore, to put it lightly. How awesome to be reviewed together!
“These books, in their flights from the personal to the ceiling of the universe and back again, truck in classic themes of love and purpose, and yet they do it in a way that finds readers where they are in the peculiarity of the moment. Citro and Lippman are two voices we really need right now.”
Gigantic thank you to Mikko Harvey for this new generous, delightful Goodreads review of my new poetry book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! 🍋🌞
Thank you Amanda and MG for my new poetry book’s first Goodreads reviews! Such kind words, a generous gesture, and wonderful help to a book. I really appreciate it! 🍋 🌞😀
Oh my goodness! My book has just been reviewed at New Pages! Susan Kay Anderson has written such a beautiful, generous, insightful review. I and my book are jumping up and down making little squealing noises. Thank you Susan Kay Anderson and New Pages!
“What Citro does in these poems is make us wonder about our very existence and our inventiveness as humans. … Every title is like a movie title and each poem a small film with you sitting inside a theater, or, are you in the film too?”
You can read the full review HERE
I have review copies of my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award and released April 1. If you’re a reviewer and would like to request a review copy, email me at christopher AT christophercitro DOT com! (Cat not included.)
Many misty-eyed thank yous to editor Brian Daldorph and the Coal City Review & Press for this issue’s generous, insightful review of my first poetry book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy published by Steel Toe Books in 2015.
Thank you to Luanne Castle for this comment about my poem in The Doll Collection anthology:
“The poems are stunning. I wish I had written Christopher Citro’s ‘The Secret Lives of Little Girls.’ I’m achingly jealous of it.”
You can read her entire Goodreads review of the anthology, edited by Diane Lockward and published by Terrapin Books, HERE.
And you can snag a copy of the anthology in print or Kindle HERE.
I recently discovered that my list poem of mini poems “On Mother,” which appears in Barrehouse‘s recent comedy issue, was mentioned in a review by Michael Good published on the wonderful literary magazine review site, The Review Review.
The author writes:
A series of poems called, “On Mother,” takes the on the style of Kenneth Koch, and in twenty three brief and disjunctive vignettes, reveals the mother’s character and personality. For example, “Mother (On Father and that One Nurse)” reads, “From now one, if anyone looks up your butt/it’s going to be a doctor or me.”
You can read the entire review of that issue HERE.
The good folks at New Pages have singled out my poem “Creation Myth” for mention in their new review of Prairie Schooner‘s Fall 2013 Issue (Vol. 83 Issue 3). Here are the kind words that reviewer Kenneth Nichols has to say:
Christopher Citro’s poem “Creation Myth” includes a number of powerful images. The narrator begins by describing a rural scene: “Overgrown weeds had hidden the car until / the brushfire revealed it. Once the doors cooled, / neighborhood kids came to investigate . . .” The car is occupied by a man and woman in formalwear. Those children receive a potent lesson in a few different kinds of “creation.” Citro’s poem distinguishes itself with the strength of the imagery and the interesting way in which Citro allows the reader to slide into the perspective of Timmy, one of the children whose understanding of the world is being changed by what he sees.
You can read the rest of the review HERE, along with reviews of current issues of Ploughshares, The MacGuffin, Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, Willows Springs, and more.
You can read the whole poem, which Prairie Schooner made available online, HERE.
Thank you Kenneth Nichols and New Pages!