Review: BLUETS by Maggie Nelson
Centaura cyanus Not Maggie Nelson Planted March 3rd Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Transplanting not recommended Review by SELMS I don’t read much memoir (people generally bore me), so I was late to reading Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. There is much that can be said about...
Review: THE AUSTRALIAN by Emma Smith-Stevens
The Australian Emma Smith-Stevens 2017 Dzanc Books 224 pages Review by CHASE BURKE Like his image on the cover, the Australian—the otherwise-unnamed hero of Emma Smith-Stevens’s debut novel, which is also called The Australian—is the kind of person who looks to the...
Review: STRIPPER IN WONDERLAND by Derrick Harriell
Stripper in Wonderland Derrick Harriell 2017 LSU Press 72 pages Review by DIAMOND FORDE While Derrick Harriell describes his third collection of poems, Stripper in Wonderland, as his most autobiographical work yet, the book’s greatest success is its...
Review: IN THE WOODS OF MEMORY by Shun Medoruma
In The Woods of Memory Shun Medoruma Translated by Takuma Sminkey 2017 Stone Bridge Press 208 pages Review by Riley Bingham The island of Okinawa, largest of the Ryukyu Arc—dividing the East China Sea from the Philippine Sea—sits four-hundred miles from...