A Review of Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins
A Review of Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins Allison Blevins’ Cataloguing Pain, out in April from YesYes Books, is a lyric memoir like no other. Told in two parts—before and after her husband’s transition—Blevins fearlessly explores through hybrid poetry her...
Review: Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World
Review: Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World Jasmine Sawers’ debut collection, The Anchored World, draws from the Bible, fairy-tales, folklore, Aesop’s Fables and many other sources for her atavistic, story-telling style. The journey-in-exile, the...
Review of Matthew Clark Davison’s Doubting Thomas
Review of Matthew Clark Davison’s Doubting Thomas What happens when a gay male teacher is accused of molesting his male 4th grade student by the boy’s parents? In Matthew Clark Davison’s debut novel, Doubting Thomas, this nightmare unfolds before Thomas...
Our Protections are Earthly: N/A Oparah’s Thick Skin
Our Protections are Earthly: N/A Oparah’s Thick Skin To describe the basic premise of N/A Oparah’s highly metaphorical, lyrical novella, it would be familiar stuff: a young woman is dumped by her boyfriend, with most of the story following Nneka as she struggles,...
Acid-Wash Jeans and Handbag House Anthems: A Review of Randall Mann’s Stunning New collection A Better Life (Persea Press)
Acid-Wash Jeans and Handbag House Anthems: A Review of Randall Mann’s Stunning New collection A Better Life (Persea Press) Randall Mann is the author of four previous books of poetry, Proprietary, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the...
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