In this mise en abyme of abandoned places, times, and people, readers first enter Americana via “The Bell […]
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Opening most books, we can flip from the title page to the first poem. Opening this book, though, […]
Carrying Within You What You Choose to Leave Behind: A ...
First, a portion of “American Arithmetic” to set the tone: At the National Museum of the American Indian, […]
Snakebites and Sky Hooks: Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem
“…let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come.” -Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 […]
A Listening Skull: Livingry
In Unsun: f/11, his intrepid, trailblazing fifth volume of poetry, American poet Andrew Zawacki lends his inimitable poetic […]
An Avalanche on the Verge of the Tongue: A Review ...
Like the title of Jenny Molberg’s Refusal, the reader’s initial reaction is to refuse this agonizing, electric work […]
The Struggle of Spirit: A Review of Refusal: Poems
“What is the right time to announce you’re named after your dead sister?” asks Kristin Czarnecki, professor of […]
Named for a Dead Sibling: Memoir and Literary Exploration in ...
When one acquires and reads a Yusef Komunyakaa collection, expectations range from the philosophical to the spiritual, from […]
“A flicker of wings and eyes”: Creation, Evolution, and Critique ...
“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved,” claimed the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. In […]
Jewel of Anguish: Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body
If you open Danielle Vogel’s book, Edges & Fray, a few pages in, you’ll see on the […]
Breathing Record: A Review of Edges & Fray
Consider the materials from which an arrow can be made: wood, aluminum, carbon, fiberglass. Each material used to […]
“Even this brief thought is endless:” An Analytical Review of ...
Since briefly working with Laura van den Berg on a story of my own years ago, I have […]