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The Fraught Nature of Belonging: Nathalie Handal’s Life in a Country Album

  • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
  • January 31, 2020
Each poem opens a window into cities and vocabularies of exile.
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Calling It Like It Is: Leland Cheuk’s No Good Very Bad Asian

  • Lillian Howan
  • January 29, 2020
No Good Very Bad Asian is a letter to the future, to a reality that has begun taking shape in Maryann but has yet to be fully realized.
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To Survive the World: Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

  • Emily Pérez
  • January 24, 2020
She wants us to know the mental and emotional labor is exhausting.
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Exceptional Pain and Power: Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • January 17, 2020
See how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
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Metamorphoses: The Uninhabitable Earth and The Overstory

  • Harrison Hill
  • January 15, 2020
And then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
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Scientific, Healing Magic: How to Know the Flowers by Jessica Smith

  • Cynthia Arrieu-King
  • January 10, 2020
A poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
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Agency and Wonder: Amina Cain’s Indelicacy

  • Alissa Hattman
  • January 8, 2020
To read Amina Cain is to enter tide pools of the mind.
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Both Reckoning and Embrace: Dorianne Laux’s Only As The Day Is Long

  • Jeri Theriault
  • January 3, 2020
As the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
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Paying Attention: Elizabeth Jacobson’s Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • December 27, 2019
Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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A Divine Comedy of Experience: Hannah Ensor’s Love Dream with Television

  • Irene Cooper
  • December 20, 2019
Art is a fickle running buddy, legacy jumps out unexpectedly, and love is too serious not to joke about.
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Food in Times of Need: Eat Joy edited by Natalie Eve Garrett

  • Jennifer Huang
  • December 18, 2019
This book begs to be flipped through and read with leisure.
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A Kind of Bliss: Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

  • Stephanie Wong Ken
  • December 13, 2019
In these moments, we are there with her, to witness the work of staying sane.
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