What Survives: A Review of Jorie Graham’s Runaway
byJorie Graham hears a buzzing we can’t. At the UK launch for her newest collection of poetry, Runaway, the poet walks out of the…
Reviews
Troubled Cord, Shifted Frequencies: A Review of The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons
byIt is impossible to read Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons at this time without thinking directly of the multiple…
When the Taking Is Holy: A Review of Hannah Larrabee’s Wonder Tissue
byWonder Tissue is Hannah Larrabee’s debut poetry collection, and the winner of the Airlie Prize. The book is organized into two hemispheres of the…
(a turning of the wheel): A Review of Ensō by Shin Yu Pai
byWhen Ensō came in the mail, I was surprised with how big a book it was— at 8×11”, it’s nearly the same size as…
Longing That Borders on Faith: A Review of Wilderness//Kingdom
byWhen I recall my adolescent years, I most frequently encounter a sense of shame and regret. Unable to find my longing reflected in others…
A Shared Language of Loss and Grace: A Review of In the Field Between Us
byMolly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison sing through the pages of In the Field Between Us. In poems that read like letters (opening “Dear…
Drafted Into Music: A Review of Music for the Dead and Resurrected
byExisting in the space of both documentary and theater, Valzhyna Mort’s newest collection of poetry Music for the Dead and Resurrected rides in on…
Interior Landscapes: Smaller Songs and Theorem
byThese two new poetry collections—one a chapbook, and one full-length—leap from their pages, exploring a range of space for the music of language to…
Grace and Ongoingness: Noelle Kocot’s Path Among the Forms
byLater, they’ll review that book, and I’ll laugh at the makeout party beginning. —Noelle Kocot, from “Socializing” Tom Snarsky: How…
Uncertain Harvest: A Review of Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy
byThere are many things that seem spookily prescient about reading Burgi Zenhaeusern’s Behind Normalcy in the COVID age. There’s the title, which seems to…