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Tag: Book Review

A Human Voice Would Scare Us: A Review of Jessie Carty’s “Shopping After the Apocalypse”

Jessie Carty’s “Shopping After the Apocalypse” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) contemplates solitude and the will to survive.

Of Melancholy in the Garden: A Review of Sarah J. Sloat’s “Heiress To A Small Ruin”

In Sarah J. Sloat’s Heiress To A Small Ruin (Dancing Girl Press, 2016), household objects and common domestic scenarios breathe, grow, and make choices on every page, but there is nothing common about them.

Let Us Eat Cake: A Review of Kelly Lorraine Andrews’ “I want to eat so many kinds of cake with you”

Kelly Lorraine Andrews’ “I want to eat so many kinds of cake with you” offers an honest, witty look at lust, lost love, and isolation. Seductive as cake.

Pieces of Us Scattered on the Coffee Table: A Review of Gathered Bones are Known to Wander

In Amy Strauss Friedman’s poetry collection Gathered Bones are Known to Wander (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016), the familiar is made strange and surreal, and what’s “real” is slippery at best.

Forgiveness Like a Slow Doe: A Review of Tammy Robacker’s R

Tammy Robacker’s poetry collection R (Seven Kitchens Press) sets masculinity and the male gaze against female adolescence to heartbreaking effect.

The Happy Genius of Amorak Huey: A Review of Ha Ha Ha Thump

Janeen Pergrin Rastall reviews Amorak Huey’s Ha Ha Ha Thump, a collection that finds humor and beauty in every situation it encounters.

Love as Survival: A Review of Caseyrenée Lopez’s QueerSexWords

QueerSexWords (Yellow Chair Press, 2016) by Caseyrenée Lopez sings with grief and power in its exploration of sexuality and what it means to love in a hostile world.

Trails of Faith: A Review of Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Border of Paradise

Esmé Weijun Wang’s novel The Border of Paradise (The Unnamed Press, 2016) forces readers to question how they define their own happiness and spirituality.

To Make a Body One’s Own: A Review of Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s There Should be Flowers

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s full-length poetry collection There Should be Flowers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) charts the struggle of making one’s body their own.

The Empty Spaces In Between: A Review of Hoa Nguyen’s Violet Energy Ingots

Hoa Nguyen’s poetry collection Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books, 2016) weaves a rough tapestry of domestic objects and daily tasks that also reveal how we long to grow our own cultural garden.

Tarot for Nonbelievers: A Review of Joanna Valente’s The Gods Are Dead

Joanna Valente’s The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015) casts the Tarot’s Major Arcana as characters in the modern world, complete with Internet access, day jobs, night clubs, existential terror, Brooklyn, and bands.

The Mechanics of Love, Loss, and Greatness: A Review of Neil Aitken’s Leviathan

Neil Aitken’s chapbook Leviathan tells the story of Charles Babbage and the passion and ambition that outpaced his lifetime.

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