book review
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Writing from the Bottom: Active Reception by Noah Ross
Active Reception writes into the place where language fails.
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An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
Slipstream may as well be what we call our bewilderment.
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Bringing to Light: A Gathering and Tethering of Memory in Darla Himeles’s Cleave
Poems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.
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The Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Amid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
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Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides
Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker
The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung
The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
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Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour
To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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To Start Again in a Different Place: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts
These are the terms Lahiri was trying to, seeking to find in Italian: this is her creed as a fiction writer.
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Of Language and Lineage: Carlina Duan’s Alien Miss
All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
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The Art of Bearing Witness: Sanctuary by Emily Rapp Black
As the title suggests, Sanctuary creates a safe space for grief in all its forms.
