Solmaz Sharif’s debut poetry collection Look from Graywolf Press is a book that should provoke anger in its readers: anger because of the injustices the book chronicles, because of the lies spoken… Read more “A Review of Look by Solmaz Sharif”
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A Review of You Can’t Pick Your Genre: Poems by Emily O’Neill
Does it take a village to end one girl? – from “Who Should I Say Is Calling?” Emily O’Neill’s collection You Can’t Pick Your Genre (Jellyfish Highway, 2016)… Read more “A Review of You Can’t Pick Your Genre: Poems by Emily O’Neill”
A Review of Lisa Birnbaum’s Worthy
Lisa Birnbaum’s Worthy (Dzanc Books, 2016) tells the story of Ludmila, an eastern European woman managing a run-down strip joint in Tampa, Florida. The novel is narrated in Ludmila’s… Read more “A Review of Lisa Birnbaum’s Worthy”
A Review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared. Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) is a collection of quiet urgency,… Read more “A Review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong”
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay’s new poetry collection The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016) is a perpetually shifting document, one that skirts from one corner of her mind to another, from… Read more “The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay”
A Review of Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis
Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis, if you can’t tell from the title, is a self-consciously strange little book,… Read more “A Review of Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis”
A Review of Herman Wouk’s Sailor and Fiddler
I arrived at a connection with Herman Wouk’s writing from an oblique angle, and the connection has remained tenuous. Reader, I’ll be honest, I’ve read none of… Read more “A Review of Herman Wouk’s Sailor and Fiddler”
A Review of Waiting Room by Jennifer Zilm
Jennifer Zilm’s debut poetry book Waiting Room (BookThug, 2016) is a curious collection. From Zilm’s disparate roles–Bible student and scholar, dental and mental health patient, public housing worker–she assembles… Read more “A Review of Waiting Room by Jennifer Zilm”
A Review of Cynthia Cruz’s How the End Begins
History wants to hurt you. Cynthia Cruz asserts this in the opening poem of How the End Begins, her new poetry collection from Four Way Books. She speaks with… Read more “A Review of Cynthia Cruz’s How the End Begins”
A Review of The Spitboy Rule by Michelle Cruz Gonzalez
Spitboy, an all-female punk/hardcore band active in the first half of the 1990s, were far more groundbreaking than their short run as a band would seem to… Read more “A Review of The Spitboy Rule by Michelle Cruz Gonzalez”
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