Eric Bies is the founding editor of Orange County Review of Books. His essays and reviews have appeared in World Literature Today, Open Letters Review, Asymptote, and American Book Review, among others.

Reviews by Eric:

Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood by Alexander Voloshin

Stone by Osip Mandelstam

Song of the Yellow Asters by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

Cold Mountain Zen by Hanshan

Hell of Solitude by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Transcription by Ben Lerner

You’ve Heard This One Before by Karmelo C. Iribarren

Renaissance by Haris Vlavianos

New Cemetery: Poems by Simon Armitage

Very Collected Poems by Ron Padgett

Earthly by Jean Follain

The Book of Rain by Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri

Fifty Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Patchwork by Tom Comitta

Terminal Exposure by Michael McMillan

Flower by Ed Atkins

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet

Out of the Blank by Elaine Equi

Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son by John Berger and Yves Berger

Pink Dust by Ron Padgett