REVIEW: Velvet Hounds by Aimee Seu
byPoetry. 73 pgs. University of Akron Press. March 2022. I have always felt sorry for the Iliad’s unsparing treatment of Paris. Saddled with the burden of divine Judgement; scorned and…
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REVIEW: O by Niki Tulk
byPoetry. 94 pgs. Driftwood. July 2022. Poetry is dangerous. It disrupts the order of things and burrows under society’s collective skin, an itch it can’t scratch without removing the wound…
REVIEW: DADDY ISSUES by Sal Kang
byPoetry. 32 pgs. fifth wheel press. June 2022. “1.0: my childhood was a lesson in discovering the body as a hazard” This line opens up “poem for protection,” a multipage…
REVIEW: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
byFiction. 400 pgs. Other Press. November 2021. 9781635421699. One storm. Two planes. Two captains. Two sets of passengers. You see where I’m going with this. Or maybe you don’t. The Anomaly is…
REVIEW: Visiting Hours by Andrew McFayden-Ketchum
byPoetry. 96 pgs. Stephen F. Austin State University Press. March 2020. 978-1-62288-312-7. Nearly two decades ago, a young woman named Mary ended her own life, forever changing her loved ones’…
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REVIEW: [Title] by [name of author]
byFiction. 90 pgs. Sublunary Editions. December 2021. 9781955190763. [Title] by [name of author] is a textbook example of the “experimental” novel that defies convention for the sake of defying convention….
REVIEW: Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
byFiction. 272 pgs. Tin House Books. November 2021. 9781951142735. Kyle Lucia Wu’s debut novel Win Me Something is a rare book that centers biracial Asian identity. It asks: What happens…
REVIEW: The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting by Veronica Montes
byFiction. 18 pgs. Black Lawrence Press. September 2020. Veronica Montes was born in San Francisco and raised in the Filipino American enclave of Daly City, California. Winner of the Black…
REVIEW: Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
byFiction. 24o pgs. Verso Books. October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-788738-95-8. “I hate God,” Jenny Hval’s narrator begins in her novel Girls Against God.“What a smug thing to say, but I’m pretty smug….
REVIEW: Lost in Summerland by Barrett Swanson
byNonfiction. 304 pgs. Counterpoint. May 2021. ISBN: 978-1-640094-18-5. “Consciousness Razing,” the impeccably titled second entry in Barrett Swanson’s newly released essay collection, Lost In Summerland, centers on Evryman, a men’s retreat…