Method Acting: A Review of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy
byIt’s possible one could go their entire lives and experience a single death, only their own. The aftermath of unpredictable tragedy, there would be…
Reviews
Immigrating into the Absurd: A Review of Tropicália by Ananda Lima
byTropicália is a book that doesn’t pull its punches or steer away from the absurd, pulling in readers from the first line, “She devoured…
And Yet There Is Hope: A Review of Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon
byDialogues with Rising Tides testifies to how we are inextricably intertwined in a web of ecological disaster, intergenerational trauma, and a persistent murmuring chorus…
The Twoness of Truth: A Review of Ananda Lima’s Amblyopia
byIn Amblyopia, Ananda Lima interrogates the imprecision of sight, the movement from one language to another, the blurred space in between. The opening poem,…
Destinations and Directions to Two Worlds: A Review of Moisés Park’s Y el verso cae al aula
byAt first glance, the most noticeable thing about Y el verso cae al aula (And the verse falls into the classroom) is a picture…
The Language of Women
byI have in front of me two collections which should shake the foundations of what a person thinks they know about conception, child loss,…
Digging for Truth: A Review of Ray Ball’s Lararium and Marilyn McCabe’s Being Many Seeds
byLararium by Ray Ball. Variant Literature, 2020. 38 pages. $10. Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe. Grayson Books, 2020. 20 pages. $12. All archaeology…
Touched: A Review of Caw by Michael Waters
byA critique leveled at the late Alan Dugan was that his poetry, although consistent across collections, was at times too predictable and never left…
Volatile Voices: A Review of Erik Fuhrer’s Not Human Enough for the Census
byTo read a book of poems about disaster in the middle of several simultaneous disasters is both an escape and a two-sided mirror. When…
Crossings: A Review of On This Side of the Desert
byFor anyone who grew up along the U.S.-Mexican border, life was no doubt unique. The border from California to Texas is by no means…