Books to Review

Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Comics | Chapbooks + Mixed Genres

Last updated April 25, 2024

We are actively looking for people to write for Heavy Feather—and we cover books that aren’t on our list below—so reach out to Books Editor Jeff Chon if you’re interested in reviewing books, interviewing authors, or pitching another type of project. We only publish interviews and reviews online. We encourage 800 words per book review. Artist interviews, general criticism, and craft essays up to 4,000 words are welcome. Reviewers receive hard copies of the book if available.

If you’re a publicist, author, or publisher and want to tell us about your book, please also email Jeff. If you spam your catalog at us, it will be treated as such. We’d prefer to not cover Big Five titles … Once in a section, click its heading to return back to the top menu.

Fiction

I Can Outdance Jesus / Willie Davis / Cowboy Jamboree Press / 303 pp.

Meet Me at the RASCAL / Harry Miller / Sagging Meniscus Press / 160 pp.

Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic / Charles Holdefer / Sagging Meniscus Press / 172 pp.

And Yet / Jeff Alessandrelli / Future Tense Books / 280 pp.

Without You Here / Jody Hobbs Hesler / Flexible Press

Captain Chicano Draws a Line in the American Sand / Stephen D. Gutierrez / University of Tampa Press / 142 pp.

More Strange Than True / Carla Spataro / Sagging Meniscus Press

Winston Hewlett’s Impotence / P.J. Blumenthal / Sagging Meniscus Press / 280 pp.

Like It Matters / Lee Klein / Sagging Meniscus Press / 244 pp.

The Sentence / Matthew Baker / Dzanc Books

Nervosities / John Madera / Anti-Oedipus Press / 206 pp.

First Law of Holes / Meg Pokrass / Dzanc Books

Please Let Me Destroy You / Rupert Taylor / No Frills Buffalo / 308 pp.

All Around They’re Taking Down the Lights / Adam Berlin / Livingston Press

Zan / Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh / Dzanc Books / 212 pp.

Hart Island / Gary Zebrun / University of Wisconsin Press / 192 pp.

The Queen of Steeplechase Park / David Ciminello / Forest Avenue Press / 470 pp. 

Everything Happens to Me / Peter Cherches / Pelekinesis / 218 pp.

Before the Mango Ripens / Afabwaje Kurian / Dzanc Books

The Nansen Factor / Alexandra Grabbe / Cherry Orchard Books / 188 pp.

Nothing’s Ever the Same / Cyn Vargas / Tortoise Books / 162 pp.

Ill-Fitting Skin / Shannon Robinson / Press 53 / 242 pp.

Leasing / D.T. Robbins / House of Vlad Press

Scumbag Summer / Jillian Luft / House of Vlad Press

The Monosexual / Dean Monti / Madville Publishing / 222 pp.

Displaced Persons / Joan Leegant / New American Press / 316 pp.

Skull Slime Witch Tentacle War / Rick Claypool / Anxiety Press / 279 pp.

The Fall and Fall of Derek Haffman / MJ Nicholls / Sagging Meniscus Press / 332 pp.

Tabitha, Get Up / Lee Upton / Sagging Meniscus Press / 308 pp.

The Commission of Inquiry / Patrick Nevins / Cornerstone Press / 192 pp.

The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need / Adam Marek / Comma Press

dethrone god / Christopher Owens / Sweat Drenched Press

The Moons / Yuxin Zhao / Calamari Archive, Ink / 250 pp.

Sporting Moustaches / Aug Stone / Sagging Meniscus Press / 192 pp.

I Keep Visions to Myself / Mallory Smart / With an X Books / 214 pp.

Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood / Bradley Sides / Montag Press

Amerikaland / Danny Goodman / Leftover Books

The Long Swim / Terese Svoboda / University of Massachusetts Press / 208 pp.

Roxy and Coco / Terese Svoboda / West Virginia University Press / 286 pp.

The Best You Can Do / Amina Gautier / Soft Skull Press / 240 pp.

Dirty Suburbia / Sara Hosey / Vine Leaves Press / 290 pp.

How I Killed the Universal Man / Thomas Kendall / Whiskey Tit

The Astronomer / Brian Biswas / Whiskey Tit / 266 pp.

Dear Chrysanthemums / Fiona Sze-Lorrain / Scribner Book Company / 176 pp.

Now Beacon, Now Sea / Steven Hendricks / KERNPUNKT Press

Cooler Heads / Julian Tepper / Rare Bird Books / 264 pp.

Midwatch / Jillian Danback-McGhan / Split/Lip Press

The Diver / Samsun Knight / University of Iowa Press / 237 pp.

Sing, I / Ethel Rohan / TriQuarterly Books

The Cartoon Life and Loves of A Stupid Man / Marc Joan / Deixis Press

L’Air du Temps (1985) / Diane Josefowicz / Regal House Publishing / 124 pp.

Conch Pearl / Julie E. Justicz / Fomite / 324 pp.

The Reign of the Anti-Santas / Colin Dodds / Dodds Amalgamated

Sex Romp Gone Wrong / Julia Ridley Smith / Blair / 250 pp.

Poetry

Sapello Son / Alejandro Lucero / Bull City Press / 56 pp.

Three-Day Weekend / Christopher Blackman / Gunpowder Press / 88 pp.

Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium / Marcie R. Rendon / University of Minnesota Press / 88 pp.

Are You There / Samantha Fain / Bad Betty Press / 72 pp.

Lonespeech / Ann Jäderlund / Nightboat Books / 88 pp. / Translated by Johannes Göransson

Inheritance with a High Error Rate / Jen Karetnick / Cider Press Review / 94 pp.

The Invisible / Alessio Zanelli / Greenwich Exchange / 104 pp.

The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu / Daniel Y. Harris / BlazeVOX / 270 pp.

Interrogation Records / Jeddie Sophronius / Gaudy Boy / 120 pp.

The Strange God Who Makes Us / Christopher Kennedy / BOA Editions / 87 pp.

Mammal / Ana María Caballero / Steel Toe Books / 88 pp.

Sweet Malida / Zilka Joseph / Mayapple Press / 66 pp.

Retribution Forthcoming / Katie Berta / Ohio University Press / 86 pp.

Instructions for the Lovers / Dawn Lundy Martin / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

Secret Poetics / Hélio Oiticica / Winter Editions / 120 pp. / Translated by Rebecca Kosick

Every Small Breeze / Marjorie Moorhead / Kelsay Books / 104 pp.

Yaguareté White / Diego Báez / University of Arizona Press / 112 pp.

The Electron-Ghost Casino / Randolph Healy / Miami University Press / 85 pp.

My Life in Brutalist Architecture / John Gallaher / Four Way Books / 138 pp.

Slim Blue Universe / Eleanor Lerman / Mayapple Press / 68 pp.

For Today / Carolyn Hembree / LSU Press / 106 pp.

Powèt Nan Pò A / Poet of the Port / Indran Amirthanayagam / Madhat, Inc. / 138 pp.

Boiled Owls / Azad Ashim Sharma / Nightboat Books / 72 pp.

Our Air / Nora Treatbaby / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

Diary / Marisa Crawford / Spuyten Duyvil / 90 pp.

Fabulosa / Karen Rigby / Jackleg Press / 76 pp.

Welcome to Hard Times / Mary Melfi / Ekstasis Editions

Each Knuckle with Sugar / Sarah Levine / Driftwood Press / 74 pp.

Death Styles / Joyelle McSweeney / Nightboat Books / 120 pp.

Desire / Michael O’Siadhail / Baylor University Press / 128 pp.

The Blue Mimes / Sara Daniele Rivera / Graywolf Press / 72 pp.

Asterism / Ae Hee Lee / Tupelo Press / 90 pp.

Hell, I Love Everybody / James Tate / Ecco Press / 112 pp. / Edited by Dara Barrois/Dixon, Emily Pettit, & Kate Lindroos

You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis / Kelly Weber / Omnidawn Publishing / 132 pp.

The Gone Thing / Monica McClure / Winter Editions / 96 pp.

Violence Beside / Jade Lascelles / Essay Press / 108 pp.

Watchnight / Cyree Jarelle Johnson / Nightboat Books / 104 pp.

Fudge / Andrew Weatherhead / Publishing Genius / 86 pp.

The Snakes Came Back /  Lora Mathis / Metatron Press / 128 pp.

Uncollected Later Poems (1968-1979) / Ernst Meister / Wave Books / 64 pp.

I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me / Anthony McCann / Wave Books / 64 pp.

Early Cuts / Kelli Lage / Kelsay Books / 92 pp.

Women on the Moon / Debora Kuan / Word Works / 104 pp.

Interior Landscape / Mirta Rosenberg / Ugly Duckling Presse / 168 pp.

11 / Carols Soto-Román / Ugly Duckling Presse / 200 pp.

Because You Previously Liked or Played / Jim Redmond / Deep Vellum / 120 pp.

Taking to Water / Jennifer Conlon / Autumn House Press / 88 pp.

Lanternfly August / Robin Gow / Driftwood Press / 100 pp.

All the Time You Want / Keith Taylor / Dzanc Books

A Rupture in the Interiors / Valerie Witte / Airlie Press

Atlas, Bound / Victor Marrero / The Opiate Books / 158 pp.

Quiet Armor / Stevie Edwards / Curbstone Press / 96 pp.

Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge / Paul Killebrew  / Canarium Books / 176 pp.

2.4.18 / Dan Kaplan / Spuyten Duyvil / 80 pp.

Nonfiction

High Priestess of the Apocalypse / Christy Tending / ELJ Editions

Screaming at the Window / RJ Dent / KERNPUNKT Press

Forces of Nature / Gina DeMillo Wagner / Running Wild Press / 316 pp.

Teeth / John Patrick Higgins / Sagging Meniscus Press / 134 pp.

Come! Come! Where? / James Seay / University of North Carolina Press / 184 pp.

Mountain Time / Renata Goldman / Columbus State University Press / 196 pp.

The After: A Veteran’s Notes on Coming Home / Michael Ramos / University of North Carolina Press / 154 pp.

Revelation at the Food Bank / Merrill Joan Gerber / Sagging Meniscus Press / 206 pp.

Furniture Music / Gail Scott / Wave Books / 256 pp.

Like Love / Maggie Nelson / Graywolf Press / 336 pp.

Toy Fights / Don Paterson / Liveright / 384 pp.

The Rye Bread Marriage / Michaele Weissman / Algonquin Books / 288 pp.

The Book of (More) Delights / Ross Gay / Algonquin Books / 304 pp.

Naked / Fancy Feast / Algonquin Books / 256 pp.

It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism / Malaika Jabali / Algonquin Books / 224 pp.

darkly + completely / Min Kang / Essay Press

looking at the Tiny / Orchid Tierney / Essay Press

Twenty Acres / Sarah Neidhardt / University of Arkansas Press / 320 pp.

Collected Essays / Michael Gottlieb / Chax Press / 246 pp.

Existential Thirst Trap / Robert Dean / Big Laugh Comedy / 162 pp.

Fever / Shilo Niziolek / Querencia Press / 172 pp.

Dark Days / Roger Reeves / Graywolf Press / 232 pp.

Scream / Michael J. Seidlinger / Bloomsbury Academic / 136 pp.

Ordinary Wonder Tales / Emily Urquhart / Biblioasis / 240 pp.

The Veil between Two Worlds / Christina Vo / She Writes Press / 256 pp.

Unbound / Aaron Shurin / Nightboat Books / 144 pp.

I/I / Katherine Indermaur / Seneca Review Books / 112 pp.

Comics

Brittle Joints / Maria Sweeney / Street Noise Books / 160 pp.

Adrift on a Painted Sea / Tim Bird / Avery Hill Publishing

The Scrapbook of Life and Death / J. Webster Sharp / Avery Hill Publishing

Barking / Lucy Sullivan / Avery Hill Publishing

Safer Places / Kit Anderson / Avery Hill Publishing

Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 1 – Catalytic Conversions / L. Pidge / Avery Hill Publishing

Disciples of the Soil / B. Mure / Avery Hill Publishing

The Glass Scientists: Volume One / S.H. Cotugno / Razorbill / 240 pp.

Optometry / Xiang Yata / Driftwood Press / 250 pp.

The Hard Switch / Owen D. Pomery / Avery Hill Publishing / 100 pp.

Curses / George Wylesol / Avery Hill Publishing / 240 pp.

Chapbooks + Mixed Genres

Fruitful / Stefanie Kirby / Driftwood Press / 52 pp.

The psychic surgeon assists / Zebulon House / Calamari Archive / 84 pp.

2-byte βeta Ei8ht ½-Loopƨ / 1-wing 2can, et al / Calamari Archive / 104 pp.

Māori Maid Difficult / Nicola Andrews / Tram Editions

And Yet Held / T. De Los Reyes / Bull City Press / 48 pp.

Home Movies / Michael Wheaton / Bunny Presse / 68 pp.

Rupture / Adrie Rose / Gold Line Press / 42 pp.

The Mountain Is Burning Down / Craig Rodgers / Anxiety Press / 68 pp.

The Quiet Practices / TC Tolbert / Beloit Poetry Journal

River City Fires / Derek Annis / Driftwood Press / 54 pp.

Dreamsoak / Will Russo / Querencia Press / 44 pp.

Glass Manifesto / Will Russo / Anhinga Press / 30 pp.

Closing Melodies / Rainer J. Hanshe / Contra Mundum Press / 836 pp.

The Capture of Krao Farini / Nay Saysourinho / Ugly Duckling Presse / 40 pp.

Sky Ladders / Ethan Chua / Bull City Press / 41 pp.

Chanties / Eric Weiskott / Bottlecap Press / 32 pp.

Joan of Arkansas / Emma Wippermann / Ugly Duckling Presse / 120 pp.

A Vortex of Securocrats / Christopher Owens / Close to the Bone Publishing / 98 pp.

Cardboard Clouds / Benjamin Niespodziany / X-R-A-Y / 100 pp.

Architecture of Silence / Carolyn White, et. al. / Contrasto / 160 pp.

And the Monster Swallows You Whole / Adrian S. Potter / Stillhouse Press / 126 pp.

Don’t Close Your Eyes / Helen Melnyczuk / Arrowsmith Press / 82 pp.

Wing Strokes Haiku / Amy Losak & Sydell Rosenberg / Kelsay Books / 36 pp.

The Book of I.P. / Chris Courtney Martin / Alien Buddha Press / 65 pp.

The Butter House / Sarah Gerard / Conium Press / 61 pp.