by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Jan 14, 2019 | Book Reviews
Not Here, by Hieu Minh Nguyen Hieu Minh Nguyen’s second collection, Not Here, is a remarkable work of emotional generosity and alchemic poetic power, not only delving into trauma, isolation, and pain, but also demonstrating how such experiences may be...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Dec 1, 2018 | Book Reviews
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Reviewer’s note: this review was originally written for The East Bay Review April 16, 2018. In his A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize–winning debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo conjures a lush, breathing landscape that permeates and...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Nov 4, 2018 | Book Reviews
Each Gutsy Redecorated Cell: Wren Hanks’s The Rise of Genderqueer Marginalized people are tasked with living in a society that wants them dead; and genderqueer/trans folks in particular have shockingly high rates of suicide and suicidal ideation....