REVIEWS
Review: Poetry Book Trio for National Poetry Month!
Terrible Blooms Melissa Stein 2018 Copper Canyon Press 96 pages Terrible Blooms, the second collection from Melissa Stein, serves as an elegy for the body’s redemption as it mourns what innocence must lose in order to be transformed again. Her newest...
The Uncanny, the Unsavory, the Uncharted: A review of Brian Evenson’s Song for the Unravelling of the World
Song for the Unraveling of the World Brian Evenson 2019 Coffee House Press 240 Pages Review by Gregory Ariail Brian Evenson’s new story collection, Song for the Unravelling of the World, grafts an exciting new limb onto his corpus of weird horror. Vanishings,...
Review: A Trail Guide to RESERVOIR by Taneum Bambrick
Reservoir Taneum Bambrick 2017 Yemassee Journal Review by Emily Montgomery Bring this book to your nearest natural area. A national forest, a city park. A local lake. Look around. Find a bench to sit on for a little while. Enjoy a...
Review: THE EMISSARY by Yoko Tawada
What happens when a multilingual world shuts itself off?
REVIEW: Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
Suicide Club Rachel Heng 2018 Henry Holt and Co. 338 pages Review by CHASE BURKE Can anything stop us from chasing the dream of immortality? Probably not. In the American tech sphere, there are already startups dedicated to...
A Review of THE GROTESQUE CHILD by Kim Parko
THE GROTESQUE CHILD KIM PARKO 2016 Tarpaulin Sky 250 pages Review by RBrown “The new world was brought down by your quakes and leveled by your wind and sunk by your flood. Some of your children managed to survive and they floated...
“It was the kind of fever in which want burns”: A Review of Rebecca Aronson’s GHOST CHILD OF THE ATALANTA BLOOM
Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom Rebecca Aronson 2017 Orison Books 80 pages Review by REILLY COX Story teaches us that, when it comes to our demise, we have options. Accounts differ. Homer is killed by either a turtle...
Review: TO THINK OF HER WRITING AWASH IN LIGHT by Linda Russo
Linda Russo begins her collection of creative and critical essays with a quote from Gertrude Stein: “Analysis is a womanly word./ It means they discover there are laws.”
Review: BLUETS by Maggie Nelson
I was late to reading Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. There is much that can be said about this book, and so much has already been said, that I am only going to concern myself with p90 on which Nelson states, “Recently, I found out that “les bluets” can translate as ‘cornflowers’
Review: THE AUSTRALIAN by Emma Smith-Stevens
By the book’s end, the Australian is a little more mature, and a little more aware of the reality of the world, and a little more accepting of the fact that “everything unlikely is, by definition, possible.”