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review by Kion You Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita Coffee House Press, May 2020 $16.95, 232pp ISBN: 978-1-56689-578-1 “Japanese Americans were used to Japanese Americans,” Karen Tei ...

Review: Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita

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reviewed by Cynthia Arrieu-King The Grave on the Wall  by Brandon Shimoda City Lights Publishers, July 2019. $16.95; 222 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87286-790-1 Brandon Shimoda’s experimental memoir The Grave on ...

Review: The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda

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review by Susan Nordmark Crow Mind by Tobey Hiller Finishing Line Press, 2020 $14.99, 32 pp. ISBN: 978-0963120717 Crow Mind is Tobey Hiller’s third poetry collection and her first in over ten years, ...

Review: Crow Mind by Tobey Hiller

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Reviewed by Cynthia Hogue The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler Tinderbox Editions, 2020 $18.00; 96 pp. ISBN: 978-1-943981-17-5 Lesley Wheeler’s fifth collection of poetry, The State She’s In ...

Review: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler

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Reviewed by Diego Báez Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez The Operating System, February 2020. $24.00; 122 pp. ISBN: 9781946031723 One of the first defining features ...

Review: Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez

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reviewed by Olga Livshin Letdown Sonia Greenfield White Pine Press, March 2020 $17.00; 102 pp. ISBN: 9781945680359 I first came to Sonia Greenfield's writing after reading her prose poem that begins ...

Review: Letdown by Sonia Greenfield

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reviewed by Jeffery Berg Daddy Michael Montlack NYQ Books, September 2020 $18.95; 88 pp. ISBN: 978-1630450595 Michael Montlack’s Daddy offers a prism of perspectives through straightforward, pithy, ...

Review: Daddy by Michael Montlack

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review of books by Megan Cummins and Annie Ernaux If the Body Allows It Megan Cummins University of Nebraska Press, September 2020 $21.95; 270pp. ISBN: 9781496222831   Happening Annie ...

Re-Narrating the Lives of Womxn by Jenessa Abrams

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reviewed by Joshua Sokol Young Heroes of the Soviet Union Alex Halberstadt Random House, March 2020 $28.00; 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1400067060 Digging through the innermost parts of one’s memory is not a ...

Review: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt

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