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Come Together through Bodies: Jennifer Colville’s Elegies for Uncanny Girls

  • Nicole Walker
  • November 22, 2017
The female body here is as palpable as image. As the images and objects transform, so does the female’s body.
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A New Understanding of Experience: David Biespiel’s The Education of a Young Poet

  • James Davis May
  • November 17, 2017
This book will make you appreciate poetry more. And if you’re a poet, it will make you proud to be one.
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Shifting Histories: Belladonna by Daša Drndić

  • John Flynn-York
  • November 15, 2017
The past may be riddled with holes, but it cannot be dispensed with as easily as possessions.
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The Dangers of the Earth’s Extremes: Jessica Goodfellow’s Whiteout

  • Kim Jacobs-Beck
  • November 10, 2017
The poems in Whiteout pull together an array of topics and well-developed craft, making it a complex book emotionally, thematically, and technically.
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A Zombie Existence: Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX

  • Sasha Archibald
  • November 8, 2017
Unlike clothing, which can disguise the state of the soul, a person’s eyes reveal the truth.
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Stitching America Back Together: A Long Late Pledge by Wendy Willis

  • Edward Derby
  • November 3, 2017
It is late for our country. We must look back in dialogue with the founders, examine a patched-together country, an embattled flag, and consider how to stop floundering.
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The Strain of Reality: Reset by Ellen Pao

  • Ikya Kandula
  • November 1, 2017
A woman is simultaneously too many things and not enough at all, forcing her vibrancy to smudge into an opaque blur.
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Both Outsider and Participant: Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi

  • Karthik Purushothaman
  • October 27, 2017
In Thousand Star Hotel, the bilingual writer’s struggle with expressing himself in English becomes a metaphor for the immigrant’s struggle with navigating the host nation’s hostile-yet-lucrative social terrain.
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The Universal Tether of Identity: Caca Dolce by Chelsea Martin

  • Melissa Matthewson
  • October 24, 2017
At its core, the collection is recollected through a loose chronology of memoir essays, all of which will appeal to readers’ younger selves: who were we when we were teenagers and who are we now?
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Playing with Genre: Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • October 20, 2017
Whether you read it as poetry or memoir, this collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent.
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Mothers and Marginalization: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

  • Chelsea Leu
  • October 17, 2017
Writing, art, and creation are elevated and pure, the book seems to say, spiritual acts separated from the dross of everyday life.
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A Deeply Human Act: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

  • Chelsea Dingman
  • October 13, 2017
What is so extraordinary about this collection is its lyricism, its humanity, and its urgency.
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