Author: Heavy Feather
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Review: Louise Henrich on Beside the Sea, a novel by Véronique Olmi (Translated by Adriana Hunter)
When I fall in love with characters, I’ll finish the book and wish that they would stick around, and oftentimes, they do. Of course, there have been times I did not want a book to close because the ending provided did not fulfill my expectations. Beside the Sea brought to focus a third reason to…
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“What Has Four Legs and Loves You?”: Will Kaufman Reviews George Singleton’s Stray Decorum
A man with more education than he initially seems to have, who has flirted with academia and/or the arts. A woman who is wrong for him, and probably at least a little crazy. A stranger or near-stranger, maybe a little bit of a con-man, and most certainly a liar. A dog that is ultimately more…
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“Assembling in the Margins”: The Moon & Other Inventions by Kristina Marie Darling, reviewed by Daniel J. Cecil
Joseph Cornell was an American sculptor and a maker of assemblage, a recluse, and according to several biographical sources, rarely left his home in Flushing, New York. During his long career he constructed dozens of ornate boxes that related small narratives between the spaces of reason. According to the Oxford Dictionary,an assemblage is a collection…
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Review: edward j rathke on Black God, a novel by Ben Spivey
Flowing in the Gossamer Fold was my introduction to Ben Spivey and it has that rare quality of growing in me even long after I read it. It was an interesting book, hypnotically surreal and powerful, but missing something. I enjoyed it greatly but it seemed to fall short of the heights it hinted at,…
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Sky Saw, a new novel by Blake Butler, reviewed by Sheldon Lee Sompton
In Blake Butler’s lyrically imagined new novel, Sky Saw, due out in December from Tyrant Books, you’ll find the his name spelled Blk Btlr on the cover and on each page. Yes. It’s like that. I toyed with the idea of writing this review without vowels. But I was concerned some might have a problem…
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Book Review by Thom James: On Slow Slidings, a novel by M. Kitchell
I’ve seen M. Kitchell’s name before, but I’ve never read any of his work until his was in a project that I was also featured in; though it was a series of photographs, so technically I still hadn’t read any of his work until I read Slow Slidings. Truthfully, I felt awful for not having read his…
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Review: Louise Henrich on This Isn’t Who We Are, a fiction chapbook by Barry Graham
“And so it begins, like this, waiting too long for a lazy train out of West Toledo.” Forget that this review is published in November. It is truly October. The beautiful grime of This Isn’t Who We Are will get under your nails and other places you cannot easily access. When I was young, my friend’s…
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“Who is ‘You?’ – Identification and Importance of the Addressee in Poetry,” a craft essay by Jillian M. Phillips
The poet’s choice of point of view is just as important as the imagery, diction, or meter. By choosing a speaking direction for their poem, they choose the way the poem will be read. Choosing first person often means that the reader will read the speaker, “I”, as the poet; this can limit their interpretation,…
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