Biespiel grapples with global crisis through the lens of the individual—specifically the relationship between two...
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Recent Poetry Reviews
O’Leary so brilliantly makes language itself a rhizomatic experience, a syntactical force that allows the...
Scanlon’s poems operate at the moment of enjambment between the last two lines above, the...
Daniel Poppick’s second collection, Fear of Description, features a collection of sonnets, elegies, and autobiographical...
It presents a tension as well for the reader: if silence is total absence, an...
A Little More Red Sun on the Human
The collection begins with dramatic monologues and portraits, cinematic and enigmatic, that are more traditionally...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
Even with the harsh realities presented in the novel, there is a love of place...
Meanwhile, Englehardt expertly traces Eli’s path from the little boy who can’t cope with his...
The story itself belongs to narrator Samantha Peabody. Samantha Peabody, as she sometimes refers to...
Russell convincingly conveys the gory conflicts, the injustice felt by Native Americans and their acts...
Not only does Schlich have fun with content, but he also beguiles the reader with...
In a world where buildings are attacked and then collapse seemingly out of nowhere, it...
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
The softness with which Renkl delivers the atrocities of life makes the joys of life...
Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...
Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
Take a moment to consider the word “hearth.” Does it make you think of the...
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
This quietly devastating “book of friendship,” as the text is subtitled, both flies and lives...
Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration
Of course, Albon is not building cities. He is writing poems. The same physics don’t...
What Arnold’s memoir is really about, however, is family. The running is secondary, an access...