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Girls Who Know: Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart

  • Carrie Jones
  • August 30, 2017
Confessional without the shame of confession, the best stories in Sour Heart feel like they are being poured from a girl heart right to your ear.
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Glimpsing the Colors of the World: Nancy Chen Long’s Light Into Bodies

  • Jessica Goodfellow
  • August 25, 2017
As a white mother of biracial children myself, this book became for me an opportunity to glimpse, for a moment, the colors of the world, and of skin, as my children might.
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Scripting New Narratives: Mandy Len Catron’s How to Fall in Love with Anyone

  • Cameron Dezen Hammon
  • August 24, 2017
I can’t help but wonder what if, in detangling love stories and our relationships to them, Catron is building yet another narrative—an anti-narrative, perhaps—of love.
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Entering an Open Doorway: Marjorie Agosín’s Las Islas Blancas / The White Islands

  • Barbara Berman
  • August 18, 2017
Agosín’s poems, though quiet and seemingly simple, linger with an interior elasticity that does not break.
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Not Your Typical Hero: Hostage by Guy Delisle

  • Laura Thorne
  • August 15, 2017
Against the muscular inevitability of Hollywood heroism, Hostage introduces the possibility that, in the face of the incomprehensible, we might remain ourselves.
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A Reluctant Chronicling: Natalie Shapero’s Hard Child

  • Laura Page
  • August 11, 2017
“I typically hate discussing the past,” the speaker admits in the title poem, “Hard Child,” then a few poems later, a little more defensively—“I swear to God I hardly think of the past."
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Bodies Testing Boundaries: The Worlds We Think We Know by Dalia Rosenfeld

  • Catherine Campbell
  • August 8, 2017
The Worlds We Think We Know by Dalia Rosenfeld is a profound debut that carefully undermines the foundational assumptions we have about other people.
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More Than Vicarious: Conflation and ALOHA / irish trees

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • August 4, 2017
In this intimate, auditory format, you can hear the poets’ pages crinkling as they turn them—such a reassuring sound—turning pages instead of scrolling screens!
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Both Beauty and Horror: Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

  • Jenna Lê
  • July 28, 2017
Tuffaha harnesses the legerdemain of lyric to link love and grief, anger and hope.
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Navigating Empathy: Camille T. Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

  • Cate Hodorowicz
  • July 21, 2017
Luckily for us, Dungy’s increase in empathy and experience coincides with her embrace of the braided essay: her thinking crashes people, places, and ideas against each other in unexpected and adventurous ways.
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There Is No Answer: Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles

  • Bradley Babendir
  • July 20, 2017
As Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.
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At the Intersection of Personal and Political: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now edited by Amit Majmudar

  • Barbara Berman
  • July 14, 2017
American writers have a long, distinguished history of calling out injustice.
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