Death and Hope from ‘The Heart of Darkness’

Death and Hope from ‘The Heart of Darkness’

Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of ReconciliationBy J. Chester JohnsonPegasus Books/Simon Schuster, 2020. J. Chester Johnson’s book, Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation, brings fresh air and a fresh...
A Manifesto and Unapologetic Permission for Girls to Be…In Verse

Review of Maze: an epitaph for the soul

Maze by Matt Bialer.Finishing Line Press, 2021. Matt Bialer’s Maze is a wonderfully composed epic in narrative prose to his late wife, to society, and memory, done in rhapsodic meter, intertwining a chorale that echoes throughout from Bosnia, to his wife’s...
A Manifesto and Unapologetic Permission for Girls to Be…In Verse

Matrix of all Relation: The Death Spiral

The Death Spiral by Sarah GiragosianBlack Lawrence Press, 2020. “To rend:  this is what I want,” says the intrepid and metamorphic speaker of The Death Spiral, from the poem “Notes Toward an Apology” wherein the speaker slices a tomato open with her fingernail,...