by Carson Ash Beker | Oct 1, 2019 | Book Reviews, Editorial, Interviews
Dear Friend/Teacher/Comrade/Lover/Artist is a collection of emails between myself, Carson Ash Beker, and Nancy Au, on the occasion of the release of Nancy Au’s Spider Love Song. It began when tried to review this book I loved, written by someone whose art,...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Jan 14, 2019 | Book Reviews
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 transformed. The book holds more than...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Dec 1, 2018 | Book Reviews
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 encompasses the self, contrasting the...
by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Nov 4, 2018 | Book Reviews
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. WrenHanks’s response to this reality is as radical as it is effective—pillaging...
by Wesley Cohen | May 10, 2018 | Book Reviews
[Reviewer’s note: this review was originally written for The East Bay Review, whose editors gave me permission to repost it in its entirety here. Find the original review here.] To read Alexander Chee’s 2001 semi autobiographical novel Edinburgh is to experience the...
by Foglifter Press | Dec 7, 2017 | Book Reviews
As a poet, it’s hard to read Randall Mann’s Propriety without feeling a little anger at the author. I say this not because it’s a poor book of poems, but because it’s astonishingly good. So good, in fact, it’s my sad duty to somehow...
