Reviewed by Kim Jacobs-Beck
Prayer Book for the Anxious
Poems by Josephine Yu
Elixir Press, October 2016
$17.00, 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1932418583
Prayer Book for the Anxious is wry and playful, ...
Review: Prayer Book for the Anxious by Josephine Yu
Book Reviews, LAR Online
My Lord I saw a dog today, and she
stood like a compass needle beside
her person—muscles tough as knotted
wood, thick grey fur, eyes shining. The harness
around belly and shoulders let the man
pull her ...
My Lord I saw a dog today, and she by Alex Mouw
LAR Online, Poetry
In my will, I left my remains to be split evenly by all of my ex-boyfriends. They already had me, might as well take me again.
To Whom It May Concern,
I hereby bequeath my body to my ex boyfriends, under ...
Dismember Me by Joanna Rafael Goldberg
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
Good Bones
Poems by Maggie Smith
Tupelo Press, October 2017
$16.95; 112 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1946482082
“Let me love the world the way I love,” Maggie Smith says in “Rain, ...
Review: Good Bones by Maggie Smith
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for the families of Nabra Hassanen, Tamir Rice, & Charleena Lyles
on hard nights when you can no longer pretend
what kills you isn’t killing you nights after mornings
like when they found the body of the ...
For the Survivors of the Un-numbered Dead by Brionne Janae
LAR Online, Poetry
I stand at the kitchen entry, hands on my hips, trying to catch my breath. Outside, people in the streets of Kharkiv are panicked; the explosion sent them running this way and that. Inside, there is a sense of ...
The Pommel Horse by Olga Breydo
Fiction, LAR Online
I tried to tell you
outright, and you listened like a
therapist, like a
bitch, nodding all too wisely in your
foolheadedness. I dissected ...
I Tried to Tell You by Angela Hui
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Riley Mang
So Much Blue
A Novel by Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, June 2017
$16.00, 257 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977825
Percival Everett’s latest novel, So Much Blue, begins with a ...
Review: So Much Blue by Percival Everett
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(June 16, 2017)
When the (white) man at the pool says
my (black) son reminds him of his youngest and asks
how old is he, eight? I say, no, four and I am not
flattered but terrified of the implications because
in ...
In Defense of the Empty Chaos Required for Adequate Preparation by Erika Meitner
LAR Online, Poetry