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The Eros of Address: A Review of Katie Farris’s “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive”

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Katie Farris Alice James Books, 2023 Review by ALHS Katie Farris’s debut collection, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is frank and vivacious, weaving out of the complexity of life an...

June 1, 2023 at 10:46 am Reviews Editor read more

“To have a tense of is-was”: A Review of Solmaz Sharif’s “Customs”

CustomsSolmaz SharifGraywolf Press, 2022 Review by ALHS Solmaz Sharif’s Customs opens with an eruption in the face of the violence of conditionality: “I had to.” This first poem is titled “America.” Customs is poetry about conditionality in that it...

March 17, 2022 at 12:27 pm Reviews Editor read more

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The Eros of Address: A Review of Katie Farris’s “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive”

“To have a tense of is-was”: A Review of Solmaz Sharif’s “Customs”