by gsfrnkln | Jun 21, 2026 | Reviews, Traveling for No Good Reason
Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor Most of the traveling in George Franklin’s new poetry collection is done not by train or plane but by memory. This has several advantages. Traveling by memory is inexpensive, instantaneous, and allows the traveler to go backwards and...
by gsfrnkln | May 26, 2019 | Reviews, Traveling for No Good Reason
Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach In his second book, Traveling for No Good Reason, George Franklin shoots the reader straight into Zeno’s paradox of the arrow: in any instant, nothing moves. As he writes in “Scrapbooks:” Of paper and silver oxide, the distance between...
