Author: Heavy Feather
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Poetry Review: Srah Katz on The Americans by David Roderick
David Roderick’s latest poetry collection, The Americans, is like a massive magnet that draws diverse objects into its field—as any successful book attempting to distill “Americanness” should. A “diary with the trick lock,” “a cherry tree falling,” the collapse of the twin towers, the plastic carts at Target, John F. Kennedy’s death, David Lynch, David…
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BJ Love Reviews His Wife Erika Jo Brown’s Book, I’m Your Huckleberry
My wife wrote a book. A good book. A good book of love poems. Some of them, the poems, aren’t about me. Enough of them are. And a quick glance at the acknowledgements will show you that, even so, this book is for me. I’m the Love the book is “for.” My name is BJ…
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Nonfiction Review: Pacia Linde on Heroines by Kate Zambreno
“My sisters, my mistresses, the spiders stalking the center of the web. I circle them, I weave their tales (or unweave the tales spun about them), I wrap my silken webs around them, I devour them. My black widows, sometimes they leave widowers, they hang themselves by their own threads.” Comprised of memoir and emotive…
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Distance Mover, a graphic novel by Patrick Kyle, reviewed by Nick Francis Potter
*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. I’ve not seen any episodes of Doctor Who, new or old, but there is no reviewing Patrick Kyle’s Distance Mover, it seems, without mentioning the relationship between the two. I take that back: I did at one point see the first half of an episode—one of the newer…
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Coyote, a novella by Colin Winnette, reviewed by Nick Sweeney
Subtly vicious and slowly heartbreaking, Coyote by Colin Winnette is a splinter that strikes a major nerve making your whole body tremble. There are few things worse than missing children, very few, but seeing the destruction and downfall of what was left behind will leave even the seasoned reader questioning just enough of the humanity…
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“Jane Gregory’s Cryptology: De/coding My Enemies”: A Poetry Review by Candice Wuehle
Jane Gregory’s first book, My Enemies, possesses the density, richness and protean quality of a book that seems to feel not only its own moral weight, but also its mortality. Gregory’s never breathless speaker is nonetheless often at haste, always imbued with the energy of the continuing line but seemingly uncertain of their own capacity…
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Bad Survivalist: “Survival and Poetry,” an essay exploring World War I Poetry by Ezekiel Black
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon, which was cause for celebration, but to complete the mission, they had to return to Earth. President Nixon’s speechwriter, William Saffire, wrote this speech in case Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon: Fate has ordained that…
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Noir: A Love Story, a novel by edward j rathke, reviewed by Nick Sweeney
There is something to be said about authors who manage to publish their first writings. There are always tales of novels in trunks in the attic, projects that you just couldn’t find a way to finish or a publisher to run with. For instance, it is one thing to read Stephen King’s Carrie, an incredible…
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Fiction Review: Stephanie Marker Reads I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life by Michael Czyzniejewski
To step into the world of one of Michael Czyzniejewski’s stories is to abandon, either voluntarily or by force, all pretenses, to strip away any semblance of grace or elegance from the sordid mosh pit of human relationships in which we all find ourselves. His work has revitalized a term that bad rock writers have…
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