A Collapse of Horses Brian Evenson 2016 Coffee House Press 270 pages Review by MICHELLE MEYERS I have, on occasion, referred to this book by the wrong title, A Collapse of Horrors rather than A Collapse of Horses. I imagine the slip perhaps resulting from the...
Forty-One Jane Doe’s Carrie Olivia Adams 2013 Ahsahta Press 96 pages Review by RYAN BOLLENBACH Carrie Olivia Adams’s collection Forty-One Jane Doe’s is less obsessed with uncovering the mystery of life as it is with uncovering the mystery of the mystery of life....
Letters to Colin Firth Katherine Riegel 2015 Sundress Publications 68 pages Review by ELIZABETH THERIOT In Letters to Colin Firth, Katherine Riegel writes a short letter every day of April to the British actor of Pride and Prejudice fame. The very first letter...
Boy with Thorn Rickey Laurentiis 2015 University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series) 104 pages Review by DIAMOND FORDE When questioned about writer’s block in an interview for a 2016 Poets & Writers publication, Rickey Laurentiis responded, “My obsessions...
All the Water All the Waves Kallie Falandays 2015 dancing girl press Review by M. K. Foster “Last morning… “This morning… “Tomorrow… “Before… “When… “When… “When… —or so time is mythically marked and unmarked across the dangerously surreal landscape of Kallie...
The Year of Perfect Happiness Becky Adnot-Haynes 2014 University of North Texas Press 192 pages Review by CHASE BURKE Take a quick look at the cover of Becky Adnot-Haynes’s collection of stories The Year of Perfect Happiness, which won the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter...