Review: LECTURE by Chase Burke Lecture Chase Burke Paper Nautilus Press 33 pages Review 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...
Review: FOR THE RIDE by Alice Notley For the Ride Alice Notley Penguin Books 144 pages Affection: 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...
Review: IN THE TREE WHERE THE DOUBLE SEX SLEEPS by Rob Schlegel In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps Rob Schlegel University of Iowa Press 72 pages Review by Carrie Busby Rob Schlegel’s In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps is a collection of poems that blurs...
Review: THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH by Oliver de la Paz 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...
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...