by Jari Chevalier | Jul 23, 2021
American Wakeby Kerrin McCaddenBlack Sparrow Press, 2021 From its epigraph to its final line, award-winning poet Kerrin McCadden’s exquisite third book, American Wake, is about going places. In its energetic momentum, we encounter who moves on and who and what is left...
by Jari Chevalier | May 13, 2019
Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit by Karla Van Vliet Folded World, 2018. Karla Van Vliet’s lyrical imagination has unearthed for us a tender relic, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit, her third collection....
by Jari Chevalier | Mar 30, 2018
Novelist A room of solitude, the world. Out the window huffs of wind do what they can to enunciate. You listen like a monk. A votive hula flame. Sound of a hand reaching in — rabbit or hyena pulled out. No one knows. The more you remember —...
