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...
Fire Cider RainRhiannon Ng Cheng HinCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Kim Trainor In Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s Fire Cider Rain, an armature of scientific terminology undergirds imagery that is fluid, languid, and meandering, like gauze or drifts of...
Slows: TwiceT. LiemCouch House Books, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh T. Liem’s second poetry collection Slows: Twice asks us to inhabit a world of doubles where everything must be approached slowly, with extraordinary care, lest it shimmer into a...
The Corrected Version Rosanna Young Oh Diode Editions, 2023 Review by Joanna Acevedo The speaker in Rosanna Young Oh’s The Corrected Version has a complicated relationship with work. As she details the day-to-day experiences of working in her father’s grocery store,...
Safety Razor Emily Osborne Gordon Hill Press, 2023 Review by Cara Waterfall There is the body of myths passed down from generation to generation, and then there is our own body of myths, which spring from memory. In her...