Tag: Unsolicited Press
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“The Surreal Rendering of Trauma in Black Wool Cape by Alison Carb Sussman”: A Review by Jessica Purdy
Readers of Black Wool Cape will not be able to look away from Alison Carb Sussman’s surreal, deeply sensitive vision of the world and the part she plays in its histories. If the title Black Wool Cape conjures mysterious images of women on the verge of madness, let it also remind us of the horrors…
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On The Year of the Monster with Tara Stillions Whitehead: An Interview by Shannon Wolf
I sometimes wonder how one person can do so much. At any one time, when I speak to Tara Stillions Whitehead, she is in departmental meetings, corralling children, squeezing in writing time, and still somehow finds the time to be a friend to all in the literary community. It is unsurprising to me that Whitehead—someone…
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“Of an (Afraid-of-Disappearing) American Learning to Swim”: Michael Martrich on Reading Emily Kiernan’s Great Divide
Water often symbolizes freedom from the structures that bind us; it floods, blurs, sweeps, and/or removes us from the gridded patterns and routines (the everyday) of place, language, tradition, relationships, bureaucracies, hierarchies, and our taken-for-granted constructions of realities in which we put much or all of our faith. The ocean, in particular, symbolizes vagueness and…
Heavy Feather Review 