Ned Balbo's Reviews
Reviews of Ned’s Work
Mar.01.2012
Published by Studio: The OnLine Literary Journal
The writer we know by the name Edgar Allan Poe famously refers again and again to a central fear of being buried alive. Ned Balbo—who shares with Poe some vital bits of biography...
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Oct.01.2010
Published by The Urbanite
With sly rhymes and sudden insights, the poems in The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems weave stories of heroes and monsters into the author's complicated biography—to...
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Jul.24.2010
Published by Verse Wisconsin Online
In Something Must Happen, Baltimore poet Ned Balbo gives shape and heft to the formless, fleeting past—both historical and personal—through his rich language and formalist...
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Jun.30.2010
Published by Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century
Something Must Happen is notable for Balbo’s specificity of language, well-paced lines, grace, and patience for erecting tiny statues in honor of personal and collective memory....
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Published by Loch Raven Review
"Something Must Happen showcases Ned Balbo’s skill as a poet and presents his varied approach to life and experience itself. His skill with form is demonstrated in sonnets such as...
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Published by Italian Americana
Like the dreams, allegories, and legends he explores, Ned Balbo's second book of poetry reveals a compelling, elliptical interior logic. His erudite collection draws upon medieval...
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Apr.15.2006
Published by Image Update: The Biweekly Newsletter from Image
Throughout Lives of the Sleepers, Ned Balbo finds the critical moment when cause engages effect—when life, beyond our control, tips into a kind of living death, or adoration...
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Reviews by Ned
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04.Nov.2009
Ned Balbo reviews
by ned-balbo
The dramatic monologues in Ned Balbo's Lives of the Sleepers are superb, the lyrics enthralling, and the meditations haunting....
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About Ned
Ned Balbo is the author of three books. His most recent collection, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center), received the 2012 Poets' Prize, and the 2010 Donald Justice Poetry Prize awarded by judge A. E. Stallings. His...
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Favorite prose includes Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale; Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles; Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Russell Hoban, Riddley...
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