by Carson Ash Beker | Oct 1, 2019 | Book Reviews, Editorial, Interviews
Dear Friend/ Teacher/Comrade/Lover/Artist: Interview with Foglifter Contributor Nancy Au 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...
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....
by Wesley Cohen | May 10, 2018 | Book Reviews
Book review Review: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee [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...
by Foglifter Press | Dec 7, 2017 | Book Reviews
Mann’s Contrarian Propriety 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...
