REVIEWS
Review: STRIPPER IN WONDERLAND by Derrick Harriell
In this collection, the ghetto plays the hero; its charms and harms ready for tragedy or ascension.
Review: IN THE WOODS OF MEMORY by Shun Medoruma
What does it mean to metaphorize memory as a forest when the trees have been bombed to splinter and ash?
Review: OF THIS NEW WORLD by Allegra Hyde
The collection contains thirteen stories, beginning with the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and ending with the human colonization of Mars.
Review: LIKE A BEAST by Carly Joy Miller
Like a Beast Carly Joy Miller Winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook Award Anhinga Press 28 pages Review by M.K. FOSTER Though it ‘be but little, it is fierce’— Carly Joy Miller’s debut, prize-winning chapbook makes no...
Review: DADDY ISSUES by Alex McElroy
Daddy Issues Alex McElroy 2017 The Cupboard Pamphlet 72 pages Review by JEREMY BURKE The stories in Alex McElroy's Daddy Issues deal frequently with masculinity, memory, and the loss of the past. These stories predate the 2016...
Review: LIGHT INTO BODIES by Nancy Chen Long
Light Into Bodies Nancy Chen Long 2017 University of Tampa Press 108 pages Review by SARAH LANDRY “Light Into Bodies,” Nancy Chen Long’s debut full-length poetry collection, rests at the crux of occurrence and intention, of panicked...
Review: THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO RISE LIKE THE WATERS UPON YOUR SHORE: A STORY OF AMERICAN RAGE by Jared Yates Sexton
The People Are Going To Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage Jared Yates Sexton 2017 Counterpoint 320 pages Review by CONNOR TOWNE O’NEILL On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton drove the five hours from...
Review: THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE by Lindsey Drager
The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager made me ache deep inside for all the daughters whose loss throbs in their families’ bodies.
Review: CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD by Alexander Weinstein
Children of the New World Alexander Weinstein 2016 Picador 226 pages Review by MAGGIE NYE Alexander Weinstein, director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing and author of the technology-obsessed debut collection Children of the New Word, is a...
Review: OVERPOUR by Jane Wong
Overpour Jane Wong 2016 Action Books 99 pages Review by RYAN BOLLENBACH In Jane Wong’s Ted Talk on her poetics of haunting, she says haunting is not “a matter of the past coming back, repressed…but is a productive and intentional act to go toward the ghost and rewrite...