Author: Heavy Feather
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Haunted Passages: “Booger Hill,” a short story by Christy Crutchfield
Tess is Eve under her coat. She made the costume last year, three felt leaves sewn strategically onto a tan bodysuit. She’s just come home from the grocery store, but I nudge her back into the car. “Where are we going?” she says. I put a bottle of wine in one cup holder, a bag…
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Horsepower, a University of Pittsburgh Press poetry collection by Joy Priest, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez
Every state carries with it certain perceptions that often gloss over the nuances of what it has to offer. Coming from Texas, the stereotypes range anywhere from wearing boots, riding horses, to the expectation that everything must be larger. Kentucky undoubtedly has its share of generalizations, but when you encounter a poet like Joy Priest,…
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Field Light, Owen Lewis’ epic proem from Dos Madres, reviewed by Colin Harrington
Field Light, by Owen Lewis, is a richly captivating collection of prose and poetry that is inspired by the aura of a creative, humanistic, and well-storied past of literature, sociology, psychoanalysis, music, and culture that defines the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. The poetry plays out in an intense narrative reverberating from the quiet isolation of…
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“Homestead”: A Flash Fiction for Bad Survivalist by Bryan Harvey
You could get to it by a shortcut through the swamp. Or you could take the bridge near the church and the cemetery as long as you left before dusk and held tight to your senses. But you could also take the mountain pass, which would still require little imagination and beating the sun in…
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boysgirls, Katie Farris’ hybrid prose text from Tupelo Press, reviewed by Cheryl Weaver-Amenta
For such a small book, boysgirls by Katie Farris is intimidating. It dares us into a world of multiplicities bookended in desire, featuring creations that shift with such frequency as to destabilize any bodily manifestations one thinks have become tangible. Language is a means to create and destroy, and Farris challenges her readers in an…
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Two Poems by Jason Phoebe Rusch
White Civilization In the wild, mothers eattheir young. Wolves maul those who disagree. Whydo we believe ourselves to be tender, reasoned,impartial? Why are we surprised by our feral, ouramoral, project our primeval onto those we rape and savage?We gratify ourselves. That is what animalsdo. Bare teeth and claws, hold each other down. The metric beingpower,…
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“Two Wanderers in America”: Katie Nolan’s memoir Confessions of a Hobo’s Daughter, reviewed by Dave Karp
Confessions of a Hobo’s Daughter, a strikingly singular dual memoir about a retired philosophy professor and her Depression-era, rail-riding hobo father, begins with a secret, one that darkens the father’s future life and that overshadows his daughter’s life as well. That secret drives the dual narrative. There is the father, Bud, narrating his impoverished hobo…
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“More Heart Than Weather”: Zach Savich Interviews Noah Falck
Noah Falck’s newest book of poetry is Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020). He is also the author of You Are In Nearly Every Future (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017) and Snowmen Losing Weight (BatCat Press, 2012). He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he works as education director at Just Buffalo Literary Center and curates the Silo City…
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“Welcome to the California Club”: Two Californias, a C&R Press short story collection by Robert Glick, reviewed by Feliz Moreno
There are nuggets of gold sprinkled throughout Robert Glick’s debut story collection Two Californias. The characters in these stories traverse the length of California’s North-South stretch of landscape in a way that feels both intimate and transitory: teenagers working in a pharmacy in the San Gabriel Valley, a Cal graduate student traveling to Topanga Hills…
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