Tag: dave newman

Michael T. Fournier reviews Dave Newman’s SHE THROWS HERSELF FORWARD TO STOP THE FALL

She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall By Dave Newman, 192 pgs. Sep 19, 2024 I’ve been following Dave Newman’s work for years. His depictions of America’s working class are stark in their honesty without ever pandering or slipping into schmaltz. The characters that inhabit his world are always a bad break away from …

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Two Roadside Press titles are reviewed in Rain Taxi Review of Books

Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet, edited by Leon Horton and Michele McDannold is reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan “The pressure of fame mixed with a hidden yet inherent shyness drove poet Gregory Corso to adopt a bad-boy persona, fueled by a heroin habit he never could kick and only resisted with the steady aid …

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