Literature
October 20, 2020
Leave It Raw
Shakira Croce
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Athena Dixon
Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence. Through masterful imagery, Croce …
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Literature
September 4, 2020
Two Worlds Exist
Yehoshua November
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Yakir Englander
Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America. November's beautiful and profound …
Literature
August 11, 2020
Finna
Poems
Nate Marshall
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Rebekah Buchanan
In Finna: Poems (One World), his new collection of poetry, Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place. Marshall defines …
Literature
July 24, 2020
The Spinning Place
Chelsea Wagenaar
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Andrea Blythe
In The Spinning Place (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019), Chelsea Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express. As a being with …
Literature
June 29, 2020
Devil's Lake
Sarah M. Sala
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Athena Dixon
Devil's Lake (Tolsun Books, 2020), the debut collection by Sarah Sala, is an amalgam of American life. The poems move deftly within a world that is equal parts dangerous, celebratory …
Literature
May 28, 2020
Black Was Not a Label
Kathryn H. Ross
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Athena Dixon
Kathryn H. Ross has found a balance. Between past and present. Between self and ancestors. Between self-discovery and continuous growth. In her hybrid collection, Black Was Not a Label, Ross …
Literary Studies
April 27, 2020
Endless Song
Tiruvaymoli
Archana Venkatesan
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Raj Balkaran
Endless Song (Oxford University Press, 2019) is Dr. Archana Venkatesan’s exquisite translation of the Tiruvaymoli (sacred utterance), a brilliant 1102-verse ninth century tamil poem celebrating the poet Nammalvar’s mystical quest …
Literature
March 2, 2020
If Men, Then
Eliza Griswold
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Athena Dixon
Eliza Griswold writes in Snow in Rome, "we hate being human,/depleted by absence." In her latest poetry collection, If Men, Then (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), Griswold grapples with a …
Literature
February 25, 2020
Soft Science
Franny Choi
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Andrea Blythe
Franny Choi’s book-length collection of poetry, Soft Science (Alice James Books 2019), explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence. As she notes in …