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Reviews
There is something gritty that catches in your teeth when you read Akbar’s work, sharp-edged words that when […]
Deconstructing Man as Animal in Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf ...
What is home? Is it a place, a person, a feeling, a sense of belonging? Or all of […]
“Singing, stones fill with music”: A Review of Meena Alexander’s ...
Jenny Xie’s second poetry collection, Eye Level, reveals the prowess of a new contemporary literary great. The title […]
“How do eyes and ears keep pace?” A Review of ...
A metaphor that extends across a poem, defying clichés and breaches of clarity or cohesion, is already a […]
Racial Allegory and Complex Contradiction in Rajiv Mohabir’s The Taxidermist’s ...
If you read Kristin Robertson’s debut book once, you really ought to read it again. In the very […]
Dynamism and Defamiliarization in Kristin Robertson’s Surgical Wing
Christopher Isherwood once paid tribute to the technical facility of his friend W.H. Auden, a facility evident even […]
A Meditation on Form and Voice in Maryann Corbett’s Street ...
Towards the end of her debut book, Some Beheadings, Aditi Machado’s speaker in “Prospect” ponders their ontological nature: […]
“I’m not human, I’m grammarian”: Life, Being, and Grammar in ...
It’s inevitable that social media’s ubiquitous presence in most of our lives has changed not just the way […]
“Make Love Out of the Kick and the Punch”: A ...
Tarfia Faizullah’s new collection of poems, Registers of Illuminated Villages, engages with issues of grief, trauma, ancestry, and […]
“With Every Register of Her Seven Tongues”: A Review of ...
In Oceanic, her fourth collection of poetry, Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes a series of love letters to the world […]
Falling in Love with the World: A Review of Aimee ...
Words, waiting to be said, but never really crossing that confident chasm from thought to expression is what […]