Review: DANIEL FIGHTS A HURRICANE by Shane Jones
Daniel Fights a Hurricane Shane Jones 2012 Penguin Books 224 pages Review by ERIN L. MILLER The unfolding of Shane Jones’s newest novel Daniel Fights a Hurricane ultimately hinges on fear—specifically, protagonist Daniel Suppleton’s fear of a hurricane wiping out the...
Review: THE CAPTAIN ASKS FOR A SHOW OF HANDS by Nick Flynn
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands Nick Flynn 2013 Graywolf Press 104 pages Review by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI Nick Flynn’s latest collection of poems, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, is a chilling journey from beginning to end, in which the unmoored urgently...
Review: POP CORPSE! by Lena Glenum
Pop Corpse! Lara Glenum 2013 Action Books 186 pages Review by LAURENCE ROSS Lara Glenum’s book, we are told, is a “vocal prosthesis.” Pop Corpse is written in a voice that is unabashedly a stand-in for something else, a substitute for something more natural to which...
Review: FAR FROM SUDDEN by Brent Goodman
Far from Sudden Brent Goodman 2013 Black Lawrence Press 60 pages Review by JOSH ENGLISH Brent Goodman’s second book Far From Sudden is broken up into four sections: “Gravity,” “Telemetry,” “Eventually,” and “Trajectory.” It is worth noting that each section-title is...