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Even More Taboo Than Love
C. Dale Young uses this third book to address injustices, the divisions caused by pain, prejudice, and a fractured spirit.
Like Algae on the Surface of Grace
There is a feeling of complicity in his [Dlugos’s] best poems in that he makes the reader love the burnished, tumultuous late nights and affection for those around him.
Perpetual Breaks of Strata
Rarely has a book of poetry offered such total, and carefully constructed immersion.
Who is Ana Mendieta?
Who is Ana Mendieta? brings the story of its eponymous central character into the public eye once again as a graphic novel detailing her career as an artist and her unsolved death.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Perhaps the glue of cruelty’s hold is not its “art” but its performance, its visceral slap, its full-frontal assault.
The Unforgiving Cinderblock
Dunn doesn’t do dazzle, though he duly honors those whose large, obsessive stars have burned brightly.
Would You Do That Again?
In short, the book offers the expert work of an expert: it is as if Bly is writing messages against the sky using not a plane but his own flawless…
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1, charts the expansive career of an experimental science fiction writer.
After the Umpteenth Bird
The speaker of The Trees Around navigates the empty spaces on the page with as much deftness and resilience as he does the empty spaces in our universe (perceptual and…