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Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker

  • Elizabeth Barber
  • October 13, 2021
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

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • October 8, 2021
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

  • Chin-Sun Lee
  • October 6, 2021
To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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Birth Stories: Kendra DeColo’s I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

  • Lynne Feeley
  • October 1, 2021
The speaker is both ruthlessly in her body and simultaneously elsewhere.
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To Start Again in a Different Place: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts

  • Guillermo Manning
  • September 29, 2021
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

  • Alice Liang
  • September 24, 2021
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

  • Amy Reardon
  • September 22, 2021
As the title suggests, Sanctuary creates a safe space for grief in all its forms.
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A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight

  • Tatiana Johnson-Boria
  • September 17, 2021
In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
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A Universe of Enterprising Divas: Raphael Cormack‘s Midnight in Cairo

  • Zahra Hankir
  • September 15, 2021
In Midnight in Cairo, the lives of the enterprising divas are interlinked.
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Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu

  • Michelle Xu
  • September 10, 2021
How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
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Sketch Book Reviews: American Monuments by David Benjamin Sherry

  • Kateri Kramer
  • September 9, 2021
An illustrated review of David Benjamin Sherry’s new book, AMERICAN MONUMENTS!
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Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed

  • Willie Lee Kinard III
  • September 3, 2021
Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
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