REVIEWS
Review: A COLLAPSE OF HORSES by Brian Evenson
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...
Review: FORTY-ONE JANE DOE’S by Carrie Olivia Adams
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. In...
Chapbook Review: LETTERS TO COLIN FIRTH by Katherine Riegel
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...
Review: BOY WITH THORN by Rickey Laurentiis
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...
Chapbook Review: ALL THE WATER ALL THE WAVES by Kallie Falandays
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...
Review: THE YEAR OF PERFECT HAPPINESS by Becky Adnot-Haynes
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...
Review: BINARY STAR by Sarah Gerard
Binary Star Sarah Gerard 2015 Two Dollar Radio 182 pages Review by REEM ABU-BAKER Sarah Gerard’s novel Binary Star plunges readers into the mind of its unnamed narrator as she struggles with anorexia and bulimia, road-trips around the States with her alcoholic...
Review: THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
At this year’s NYC PRIDE a group of people were handing out self-published, large format, pink and black newspapers that pronounced in 212-point font “I HATE THE GAYS.” …
Review: i built a boat with all the towels in your closet… by Leia Penina Wilson
Leia Penina Wilson 112 pages Red Hen Press Review by RYAN BOLLENBACH The universe of Leia Penina Wilson’s debut poetry collection i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) is rendered through six separate sections from multiple…
Review: IT HAD BEEN PLANNED AND THERE WERE GUIDES by Jessica Lee Richardson
Jessica Richardson FC2 By MEGHAN TEAR PLUMMER Jessica Richardson’s first collection is as dexterously crafted as its content is deviant and feral. The collection gains its title from a line in the last story “Shush,” in which an unidentified group plunges…