September 29, 2017
When Every Neighbor’s a Firecracker: Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová
Translated by Janet Livingstone. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2017. 126 pages. $14.99. Petržalka is that seedier part of town just past the river, the entrance marked by an amusement […]
September 29, 2017
“The Imagination Plays With You”: Mary Ruefle’s My Private Property and On Imagination
My Private Property. Mary Ruefle. Seattle, WA: Wave Books, 2016. 128 pages. $25.00. On Imagination. Mary Ruefle. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2017. 32 pages. $9.95. In her book of aphorisms, […]
September 22, 2017
On Karyna McGlynn’s Hothouse
Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2017. 83 pages. $14.95. How can we write about ourselves without seeming like narcissists? Most poets who are enjoyable to read have found an answer to […]
September 22, 2017
On Together and by Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2017. 96 pages. $16.00. In Alex Dimitrov’s second book, Together and by Ourselves, the poems are nowhere and everywhere. As they move throughout time, […]
September 15, 2017
An Erotics of Turbulence: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s poetry collection Burn
Asheville, NC: MadHat Press, 2017. 62 pages. $14.95. In addition to the halls of academia expected of the modern writer, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke has also worked in fields and […]
September 15, 2017
“Lightning that Wants to Stay”: On Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations
Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2016. 79 pages. $22.00. So often—in literature, in the media, by loved ones—we are told that we are at least partially in control of our bodies […]
September 8, 2017
On Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
New York, NY: Hogarth Press, 2016. 202 pages. $24.00. An abandoned house brims with shelves holding fingernails and teeth. A demonic idol is borne on a mattress through city streets. […]
September 8, 2017
On The Sleeping World by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2016. 292 pages. $24.00. Though it’s easy to forget in an age in which punk has long been commoditized, it was once a vital and […]
September 1, 2017
An American Sutra: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
New York, NY: Random House, 2017. 344 pages. $28.00. Apart from George Saunders’s moving new novel Lincoln in the Bardo, out this February from Random House, The Tibetan Book of […]
September 1, 2017
The Mind Set Alight: Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book & Kathryn Nuernberger’s Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past
Suzanne Buffam. A Pillow Book. Ann Arbor, MI: Canarium Books, 2016. 104 pages. $14.00. Kathryn Nuernberger. Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2017. 100 […]
August 28, 2017
August Micro-Reviews
Heid E. Erdrich. Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media. Michigan State University Press, 2017. 100 pages. $16.95. What medium can record and absorb the destruction of […]
August 28, 2017
August 2017 Micro-Reviews
Heid E. Erdrich. Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media. Michigan State University Press, 2017. 100 pages. $16.95. What medium can record and absorb the destruction of […]