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Category: Reviews & Criticism

I FAILED TO SWOON, a poetry collection by Nadia de Vries, reviewed by Fani Avramopoulou

Nadia de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon is a slim collection of poems that are by turns playful, brutal, and … More

Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Fani Avramopoulou, I Failed to Swoon, Nadia de Vries

LA SERENISSIMA, a poetry collection by Wallace Barker, reviewed by Donald Ryan

Wallace Barker’s La Serenissima from Gob Pile Press. 19 chapters. 19 vacations. Each poem a single sentence, less than a … More

Donald Ryan, Gob Pile Press, La Serenissima, Wallace Barker

CONDEMNED TO CYMRU, a novel by M.J. Nicholls, reviewed by Eric Williams

M.J. Nicholls’ new novel Condemned to Cymru is Rabelaisian in every sense of the word: it’s gross, it’s droll, there’s … More

Condemned to Cymru, Eric Williams, M.J. Nicholls, Sagging Meniscus Press

BEGAT WHO BEGAT WHO BEGAT, short stories by Marcus Pactor, reviewed by Maxwell Malone

Marcus Pactor’s sophomore short story collection, Begat Who Begat Who Begat, explores the deceptively complex topics of mundanity and domesticity … More

Astrophil Press, Begat Who Begat Who Begat, Marcus Pactor, Maxwell Malone

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BENDING TIME, a memoir by Kristin Keane, reviewed by Shannon Wolf

Memoir often serves as a vehicle for a writer—a way to recall or reconfigure a period of time or a … More

An Encyclopedia of Bending Time, Barrelhouse Books, Kristin Keane, Shannon Wolf

Peter Valente: Notes on the Influence of the Work of William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin on Certain Contemporary Writers

old armor because words are built into you – in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize … More

Brion Gysin, contemporary writers, cut-up technique, William S. Burroughs

YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, short stories by Cara Blue Adams, reviewed by Vincent James Perrone

Often, short stories are a gesture, a head nod, a breath, a whole lot of symbolism beneath every action and … More

Cara Blue Adams, University of Iowa Press, Vincent James Perrone, You Never Get It Back

INHERITANCES OF HUNGER, a debut chapbook by Stella Lei, reviewed by Daisuke Shen

Secrets serve as our guides to navigate the world of Stella Lei’s first chapbook, Inheritances of Hunger. But secrets are … More

Daisuke Shen, Inheritances of Hunger, River Glass Books, Stella Lei

TERMINAL PARK, a novel by Gary J. Shipley, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

How do you write about the meaning behind a book whose core subject is essentially the end of meaning? How … More

Apocalypse Party, Dave Fitzgerald, Gary J. Shipley, Terminal Park

Shannon Wolf on REFUSE TO BE DONE, a craft book by Matt Bell

In perhaps the craft book to end all other craft books, Matt Bell implores us to take ownership of our … More

Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done, Shannon Wolf, Soho Press

AND IF THE WOODS CARRY YOU, the third poetry collection by Erin Rodoni, reviewed by Daniel A. Rabuzzi

Erin Rodoni’s And If the Woods Carry You enthralls from the start and maintains the intensity of its revelations throughout. … More

And If the Woods Carry You, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, Erin Rodoni, Southern Indiana Review Press

WHERE THE SKY MEETS THE OCEAN AND THE AIR TASTES LIKE METAL AND THE BIRDS DON’T MAKE A SOUND, a novel by Mike Kleine & Dan Hoy, reviewed by Jace Brittain

It begins with a body. Like a lot of the books and movies of the detective noir genre, we know … More

Dan Hoy, Mike Kleine, TRNSFR Books, Where the Sky Meets the Ocean and the Air Tastes Like Metal and the Birds Don't Make A Sound

Shannon Wolf on THE OTHER ONES, a novel by Dave Housley

In Dave Housley’s newest offering from Alan Squire Publishing, a multitude of characters reckon with complacency as The Other Ones: … More

Alan Squire Publishing, Dave Housley, Shannon Wolf, The Other Ones

BED, a poetry collection by Elizabeth Metzger, reviewed by Ben Tripp

The fundamental operation of Elizabeth Metzger’s new short poetry collection Bed is a careful reduction: the mortar of her true … More

Bed, Ben Tripp, Elizabeth Metzger, Tupelo Press

“Embodying Language”: Fani Avramopoulou on Desire and Damnation in Yelena Moskovich’s A DOOR BEHIND A DOOR

Composed of hundreds of loosely arranged narrative fragments, Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind a Door tells the story of Soviet … More

A Door Behind a Door, Fani Avramopoulou, Two Dollar Radio, Yelena Moskovich

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