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Sally Wen Mao
Oculus

Graywolf Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network May 22, 2019 Andrea Blythe

In Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds,... Read More

J Mase III
And Then I Got Fired
One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and Inappropriate Jokes About Death
J Mase III, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 13, 2019 Adrian King

In his own description of his book, And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, & Inappropriate Jokes About Death, J Mase III writes, “Feel free to scream directly into this book if you need to.” It is in this invitation that J Mase III takes on... Read More

Adriana X. Jacobs, “Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry” (U Michigan Press, 2018)

Adriana X. Jacobs
Strange Cocktail
Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
University of Michigan Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Israel Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network May 2, 2019 Yaron Peleg

In Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry. Through close readings of poems by Esther Raab, Leah Goldberg, Avot Yeshurun, and Harold Schimmel, Jacobs shows how an intertwined poetics and praxis of translation... Read More

Frances Donovan, “Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore” (Reaching Press, 2018)

Frances Donovan
Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore
Love Poems
Reaching Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network April 24, 2019 Athena Dixon

Grey Held writes of Frances Donovan‘s book, Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore (Reaching Press 2018 ), “there is hunting for love, there is basking in love, there is longing.” This collection offers all of these things. It examines what it is to love romantically, sexually, as a friend, and... Read More

Sara Tantlinger
The Devil’s Dreamland
Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes
StrangeHouse Books, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network April 9, 2019 Andrea Blythe

In The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes (StrangeHouse Books, 2018), Sara Tantlinger intertwines fact and speculation to examine inner workings of H.H. Holmes, a man who committed ghastly crimes in the late 19th century and who is often credited with being America’s first serial killer. Narratively arranged, these... Read More

Isobel O’Hare
all this can be yours

University of Hell Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network March 15, 2019 Andrea Blythe

Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies. These poems offer fierce explorations of the truth hidden behind apologies intended to explain away or dilute culpability, rather than accept responsibility. The result is a powerful... Read More

Megan Burns
Basic Programming

Lavender Ink, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network February 21, 2019 Athena Dixon

Basic Programming (Lavender Ink, 2018), the latest collection by Megan Burns, is an exercise in balance. Between grief and healing. Between humanness and technology. Between examination and acceptance. Building from her brother’s death and journeying through her grieving process, Burns guides readers into her heart and back out the other... Read More