by Amanda Auerbach | Mar 9, 2020
All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser Two Sylvias Press, 2019. Dana Roeser’s All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts is a book of long, narrow poems that move lightly and deftly from one strand of experience to another, in the...
by Matt Geiger | Feb 6, 2020
Word Has It by Ruth Danon Nirala Publications, 2018 On the subject of serial killers, poet Ruth Danon writes that they “leave notes, write in code.” They “grow increasingly impatient.” “They hate the dark,” she muses. “They want to be found.” So...
by Risa Denenberg | Dec 4, 2019
The Fire Lit & Nearing by J.G. McClure Indolent Books, 2018. ...
by Tom Griffen | Nov 18, 2019
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Graywolf Press, 2019. Ilya Kaminsky’s second poetry collection, Deaf Republic, is an exhilarating and anguished poetic narrative. Sixty poems tell the story of an unspecified event wherein, “SOLDIERS—arrive in...
by Kylie Gellatly | Sep 6, 2019
Bad Harvest by Dzvinia Orlowsky Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. Bad Harvest is a resonant folk song that fills the chambers of the future with echoes of the past. Its complex twists of hereditary and personal relations with language and...
