Ohio poet Jeff Gundy’s Abandoned Homeland is a collection of simple poems that feel rooted in their midwestern state of origin. These poems are of this place, a state… Read more “A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy”
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A Review of Melinda Palacio’s How Fire Is a Story, Waiting
An earthy elementalism provides the texture and grit of Melinda Palacio’s How Fire Is a Story, Waiting (Tía Chucha Press, 2012). I recently reviewed Lo Kwa Mei-en’s debut collection Yearling… Read more “A Review of Melinda Palacio’s How Fire Is a Story, Waiting”
A Review of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis’s National Book Award-winning Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems is a powerful collection that beautifully blends the personal and the political. The book is organized… Read more “A Review of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis”
A Review of Iliana Rocha’s Karankawa
The Karankawa, as explained briefly in the foreword to Iliana Rocha’s debut poetry collection of that title (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), were a tribe of Indians who… Read more “A Review of Iliana Rocha’s Karankawa”
A Review of Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver’s newest collection of poetry is a simple one, and as lovely and as gently insightful as we’ve come to expect from one of our greatest… Read more “A Review of Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver”
Dubious Lexicon: A Review of Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
I feel like I’ve been shoving the pit of Four-Legged Girl around with my nose for weeks like my cat when she’s unsure if she’s able and… Read more “Dubious Lexicon: A Review of Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss”
A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
In Why God Is a Woman (BOA Editions, 2015), Nin Andrews uses clean, unpretentious language to give us a series of short prose poems that tell of a… Read more “A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews”
A Review of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine’s National Book Award-winning Citizen: An American Lyric is a testament to how far we have to go as a nation to move past the racism… Read more “A Review of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine”
Tunneling Towards a Ferocity: A Review of Rome by Dorothea Lasky
And faceless, I went to the car, pronounced: “The book will be called Rome.” Men in the seats Thinking I was odd or silly But I could still… Read more “Tunneling Towards a Ferocity: A Review of Rome by Dorothea Lasky”
What Can Make This Matter: Down by Sarah Dowling
Sarah Dowling’s Down is a book that draws us in with the intentional failure of its imagined voice. Not the failure of the book, mind you, but… Read more “What Can Make This Matter: Down by Sarah Dowling”
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