Author: Heavy Feather
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“Fuck Philly Roth”: A Literary Treatise by Sean Kilpatrick
You can’t scrub the itinerary off a pilgrim. By no margin is a lap better sucked. Our righteously examined universe has been bleached with tiny egos. So much neurotic journeying I have to confess my excrement palpable enough to find purchase. Does the journalistically plainspoken canon reach deep enough true to form a semblance of…
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Discomfort, stories by Evelyn Hampton, reviewed by Emily Kiernan
Evelyn Hampton’s Discomfort is a beautifully constructed collection of stories—slim, spare, and mysterious, contained within a subtly assured voice that gently presses you to turn the pages in hopes that each new story will fill in the negative spaces of the last. The stories do, indeed, complete each other, though through echoes and resonances rather…
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The Cartographer’s Ink, poetry by Okla Elliott, reviewed by Raul Clement
I met Okla Elliott in 2004. At the time, he was doing coursework for his first master’s degree and working at a university library. Ten years later he is the same man, only more so—further along in his career, further along in his thinking. He now has two additional master’s degrees and is nearing completion…
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The Dottery, a poetry collection by Kirsten Kaschock, reviewed by Jacob Collins-Wilson
The Dottery by Kirsten Kaschock is the 2013 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry winning book of poems that explores the beginning of identity, gender and humanity. The Dottery refers to a building where beings with semi-consciousness learn to become good dotters (daughters) and is the focal point or planet around which the poems orbit. The…
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The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales, fiction by Matt Runkle, reviewed by Mike Jacoby
The title of Matt Runkle’s forthcoming short story collection, The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales, led me to expect some fables featuring animals loving and tricking one another, perhaps for the sake of a moral lesson. I’ll save you from that misperception by saying Runkle’s collection is fairly animal free,…
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Paper Champion, a new book by Shane Jones, reviewed by Grant Kittrell
Paper Champion, by Shane Jones, is like one hundred eighteen right hooks to your pillow. Like all the things you almost thought you said. It’s a volcano with a false start, plus a thousand. It’s a book you wish you’d read when you were three, and forty-three. If this book were an igloo, it would float. If this book were a sign, it would say “Yes,” would never say, “Wait a second” or compare itself to an igloo. Like, you are taking prisoners. Like, come on. This book is a charred thumb at the hands of a BIC lighter.…
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Kim Hyesoon’s Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream: a conversational review by Candice Wuehle, Meredith Blankinship, & Ashley Colley
Candice Wuehle: Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream is a mystic book for me in many ways. It uses incantatory language, possessed and possessable bodies, contains recipes that rupture into spells, and engages with the repetitious quality of time. This is a book of poetry, but it also a book of poetic application. I suppose when I say “mystic,” I mean…
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Jagged Alliance 2, nonfiction by Darius Kazemi, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt
Dave Anthony’s proposal at an address to The Atlantic Council on October 1st that we install plainclothes soldiers into schools has made it that much more difficult to deny the link between militarism and the video game industry. A newly appointed fellow to the council and the director of Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) and its…
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Kelsie Hahn Reviews How to Read How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents, collaborative writing by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska
Find a place that is quiet but no one will be upset if you’re noisy. Listen to heavy metal long enough to enter the imperative mood but not long enough to join a small, angry cult. Read a little at a time. Let the how-to guides sit in your head. Let them move down to…
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