echolalia echolaliaJane ShiBrick Books, 2024 Review by Madelaine Caritas Longman After reading the first poem in Jane Shi’s debut, echolalia echolalia, I put down the book and paced in circles. My heart knocked against my chest; my fingers transfigured...
Buzzkill Clamshell Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press Review by Margo LaPierre Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates...
A blueprint for survivalby Kim TrainorGuernica Editions, 2024 Review by Leah Bobet It’s at the end of one of climate poetry’s emerging tropes — that our inner landscapes and outer ecologies are one thing after all — that A...
Prescribee by Chia-Lun ChangNightboat Books, 2022 Review by Nicole Miyashiro “Please bear with me,” Chia-Lun Chang writes in “The Accent Floats,” an early poem in her first full-length collection, Prescribee. Born and raised in Taiwan and living in New...
Graphis scripta / writing lichenby Clare GouletGaspereau Press, 2024 Review by Kim Trainor Clare Goulet’s first poetry collection, Graphis scripta / writing lichen, draws its title from a lichen found in wet coastal forests, known by its common name...
Marrow Memory: Essays of DiscoveryMargaret NowaczykWolsak & Wynn, 2024 Review by Stephanie Cesca Could Dostoyevsky be the answer to receiving an accurate medical diagnosis? As Margaret Nowaczyk explains in Marrow Memory, her beautifully written and compelling collection of essays,...
Incrementallyby Penn KempHem Press, 2023 Review by Richard-Yves Sitoski “Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.” – Ursula K. Le Guin Who hasn’t...
nature felt but never apprehendedby Angela PeñaredondoNoemi Press, 2023 Review by Brian Stephens This frank collection of poetry by Angela Peñaredondo (she/they) manages the wondrous feat of being bracing yet elegant in its delivery: like a pour of chartreuse...
Wrong NormaAnne CarsonNew Directions, 2024 Review by Samantha Neugebauer “All novelists,” remarks Anne Carson in Wrong Norma, “share the fantasy of a different kind of novel.” Yet most novelists–albeit not Carson, a Renaissance Woman known for her astonishing ability...