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Everything Awake: A Review

by COLIN DEKEERSGIETER   Credit: Shearsman Books Sasha Steensen, Everything Awake (Shearsman Books, 2020), pp.90.  Sasha Steensen’s Everything Awake is a poetry driven by the vertigo of life’s work,...

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Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action: A Review

by KYLAN RICE   Credit: Partly Press Jordan Dunn, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press, 2022), pp. 84. In a chapter on the lumber industry in Man and Nature, Or, Physical...

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A Long Time to Be Gone: A Review

by KYLAN RICE   Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Press Michael McFee, A Long Time To Be Gone (Carnegie Mellon, 2022), pp. 72. In a notebook from the 1930s, Robert Frost wrote out a recollected line...

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“History / And Fear”: A Review of Sleeping as Fast as I Can by Richard Michelson

by KYLAN RICE   Credit: Slant Books Richard Michelson, Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant, 2023), pp. 88. In Negative Dialectics, Theodor Adorno tempered his often-quoted claim that it’s “barbaric” to...

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The Other Woman

by Erin Blue Burke   Her pool is a private one, a gated community of exercise, and everyone who sees her swimming back and forth from end to end knows she wants to be left alone. Many of them have had...

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Indigo: A Review

by ELLIE RAMBO   Credit: Catapult Books Padgett Powell, Indigo (Catapult, 2021), pp. 223. If I were to start the review of this book the way many of the essays within it begin, I would open with a...

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RealityCheck

by Jake Slovis   We heard about RealityCheck from Anne and Tom. They said it had really worked for them, that since they’d started playing, they hadn’t fought once. The evidence of their success was...

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Syncopated Sensibility: Review of Sevastopol

by CELIA LEGBAND HAWLEY   Sevastopol, Emilio Fraia, New Directions Publishing, 2021. Possibly the best advice I can give you about reading Emilio Fraia’s 2018 novel Sevastopol is: Do not let your first...

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Bewilderness: A Review

by BEE GRAY-ARMY   Bewilderness, Karen Tucker, 2021, 288 p. In our current moment, addiction is as familiar to most Americans as a regularly scheduled television program. In fact, 22 million people are...

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Proofs of Purchase

by George Singleton   My father left me with two pillowcases of dimes and nickels, separated. He left a note atop the bags, stashed in the back of a tool shed, saying he started saving when I was born,...

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The Naomi Letters: A Review

by MARY SIMS   Credit: BOA Editions Rachel Mennies, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021). Rachel Mennies’ The Naomi Letters opens with a question, an invitation to devotion: “The love poets say...

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Night Rooms: A Review

by DONAL MACADAM   Credit: Two Dollar Radio Gina Nutt, Night Rooms (Two Dollar Radio, 2021). Gina Nutt writes that horror in film is “a reaction, recognition, a response to a call.” Nutt is the author...

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An Assembly

by Chelsie Bryant   Grandma Owens didn’t often invoke the Lord’s name in vain, but when the news hit that another child had been murdered, she let loose a quiet “Lordy.” It was nearly silent, the...

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The Fugitivities: A Review

by SHANA SCUDDER Jesse McCarthy, The Fugitivities (Melville House, 2021).   Credit: Melville House Jesse McCarthy’s debut novel The Fugitivities asks the weighty and perhaps unanswerable question: what...

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Jesse DeLong’s Poetic Chemical Reaction: A Review of The Amateur Scientist’s...

by DEREK WITTEN Jesse DeLong, The Amateur Scientist’s Notebook (Baobab Press, 2021).   Credit: Baobab Press Anyone who has vaguely intuited an unknown poetic language behind terms like electroweak,...

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Bad

by Mathew Goldberg   Saturday, we attended Safety Day at Davy Crockett High School where Levi got to sit in a fire engine, helicopter, and police car. In early October, summer assaulted Austin a second...

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Waterbaby: A Review

by MINDY BUCHANAN-KING Nikki Wallschlaeger, Waterbaby (Copper Canyon Press, 2021).   Credit: Copper Canyon Press Reading Nikki Wallschlaeger’s third collection of writing is an immersive experience....

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Skin Like You

by Sarah Walker It is the first time I have been home in seven years. I watch the windows, fixed on the blobs of light inside. I wait for the house to turn completely dark and when it does, I climb the...

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Breath Like the Wind at Dawn: A Review

by MATTHEW POTTS credit: Sagging Meniscus Press Devin Jacobsen, Breath Like the Wind at Dawn (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2020), pp. 208. Scary stories are probably about as ancient to human culture as...

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Seeking Utopia: Queer and First Nations Embodiment in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A...

by JAMIE WATSON     Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body (Two Dollar Radio, 2020), pp. 142. What does it mean to have a brief body, to wonder when one will truly feel here, now? How much...

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