Lecture Chase Burke Paper Nautilus Press 33 pagesReview by Sandra Barnidge If Chase Burke’s debut chapbook, Lecture, came with a quiz at the end, here would be the answers: 1. Julius Caesar drank from a blue cup, a very blue cup. 2. The greatest library in the world...

For the Ride Alice Notley Penguin Books 144 pagesAffection: For the Ride Review by August Kelly One read poetry of One For The Ride pastly; sticks; one thinks are getting it. If are One can speak thusly? Sounds like? One is speaking. How right time always could,...

In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps Rob Schlegel University of Iowa Press 72 pagesReview by Carrie Busby Rob Schlegel’s In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps is a collection of poems that blurs tenderly any sense of certainty with its lyrical attention to the...

The Boy in the Labyrinth Oliver de la Paz University of Akron Press 155 pages Review by Tyra Isaacs Oliver de la Paz’s The Boy in the Labyrinth is a retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. But as the father of two autistic children, de la Paz takes...

Reviews by REILLY COXMarginalized experiences are constantly, brutally, consistently conflated, both between communities and within them. POC, queer, dis, poz—whatever the experience, it is assumed that one experience equals another of the same name. This is, in part,...

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And other Arguments for Economic Independence Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 Bold Type Books 240 pages Review by Tucker LegerskiIn recent years, enthusiasm for socialism and socialist-like polices has grown in America. Perhaps what...

The Farm Héctor Abad Translated by Anne McLean 2018 Archipelago 375 pages Review by Ivonne AyalaWith careful prose, we are submerged into the history of the Ángels’ family in Hector Abad’s most recent book The Farm translated from Spanish by Anne Mclean. Abad is one...

Unforgetting Private Charles Smith Jonathan Locke Hart 2019 Athabasca University Press 80 pages Review by Chengru HeI was teaching a first-year composition class, themed on Image, History, and Digital Archive, this spring. What is an archive? None of my students had...

Mostly Dead Things Kristen Arnett June 4, 2019 Tin House Books 366 pages Review by CHASE BURKEKristen Arnett, self-proclaimed “lesbian willie nelson” and “7-11 scholar™”, is Florida’s ideal literary ambassador. She’s never not writing...

The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of MixtureBy Emanuele Coccia Translated by Dylan J. Montanari 2019Polity Press148 pages Review by Josh Dugat It is May in Alabama, and the ground is opening up. Just today, the first of the okra sprouted in the...