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More Horses Than We Need

  • Lois Bassen
  • August 5, 2011
Perspective and introspection are plentiful in this fine retrospective collection, but Gallagher doesn’t fully see now. She speculates profoundly and eloquently, metaphysically — never astro/quantum physically, as if from any…
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Hello, Happy Homeland

  • Mimi Albert
  • August 4, 2011
Ana Menendez’s new collection of short fiction, Adios, Happy Homeland, weaves together stories from diverse Cuban voices that all confront the history and lived reality of their conflicted homeland.
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A Journey With Two Maps

  • Barbara Berman
  • August 3, 2011
Becoming a Woman Poet is brisk, each indicator of geography reinforcing the urge to break barriers.
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By Any Other Name

  • Daniel Stolar
  • August 2, 2011
Like Freedom, Keith Scribner’s third book, The Oregon Experiment, is hugely ambitious, decidedly modern, distinctly American novel, with complicated family dynamics, and remarkable depth of character and psychological nuance.
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Their Eyes Like Geodes

  • Jessie Carty
  • July 29, 2011
In She Returns to the Floating World, Gailey utilizes anime and other aspects of Japanese culture, such as its folklore and attitudes following The Bomb, as she puzzles through how…
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Populist Fatalism

  • Caleb Cage
  • July 28, 2011
In his new epistolary novel, Dignity, about a new community founded in the unpaved cul-de-sacs and abandoned unfinished houses of the California desert, Ken Layne criticizes the material obsessions of contemporary capitalism.
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A Box, or Paradox, A Language Game

  • Marthe Reed
  • July 27, 2011
Tesser’s chapbook slips outside certainties, authorities, controls, leaving her reader-players loose to enact their own language game, re-encountering the inherent antic plasticity of words and meanings.
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The Eyes of Ginger Pritt

  • John Wilwol
  • July 26, 2011
The first novel from poet Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners is a coming-of-age tale told in riveting prose.
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Whisk in the Mouth

  • Hilary Plum and Zach Savich
  • July 23, 2011
Editor’s Note: We don’t usually run reviews that are conversations between two writers, and we don’t usually run reviews on Saturday, so you’re getting a doubly special treat today. Here…
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The Chipped Mosaic, The Dust

  • Brachah Goykadosh
  • July 22, 2011
As a poet, [Joanne] Diaz trusts her readers to understand; she conveys the electric, what we feel and are jolted by, but cannot ever fully grasp in words or phrases.
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Fables

  • Nick Sturm
  • July 21, 2011
Horrifying and humbling in their imaginative precision, the stories of Sarah Goldstein’s collection, Fables, awaken the tension between human and nonhuman in these haunting vignettes.
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Even More Taboo Than Love

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • July 20, 2011
C. Dale Young uses this third book to address injustices, the divisions caused by pain, prejudice, and a fractured spirit.
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