Book Review: California's Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology

If one can think of geography as an 'autopsy of the invisible' to borrow the words of Joshua G. De Leon, which serve as an epigraph to this collection, then poetry is geography's great companion. Z Publishing has been for the past several months releasing installments of geographically based poetry in a 'best emerging poets series,' with each book arriving from one of the nation's fifty states. The California edition is thematically organized with between ten and forty-five poems included in each of the book's eight sections.