Reviewed by Roy White
Vanishing Acts
Poems by Brian Barker
Southern Illinois University Press, March 2019
$15.95, 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0809337279
Many things are vanishing in Brian Barker’s Vanishing ...
Review: Vanishing Acts by Brian Barker
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Reviewed by Emily Pérez
Be Recorder
Poems by Carmen Giménez Smith
Graywolf Press, August 2019
$16.00, 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555978488
In Be Recorder, her most important collection of poetry to date, ...
Review: Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith
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Reviewed by James Benton
Little Million Doors: An Elegy
Chad Sweeney
Nightboat Books, April 2019
$15.95, 80 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1643620008
Like a hurricane of images, or a tsunami of grief, ...
Review: Little Million Doors: An Elegy by Chad Sweeney
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Reviewed by Sidney Wade
Birnam Wood
Poetry by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona
Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (July 27, 2018)
$21.00, 96pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1912561186
Birnam Wood is ...
Review: Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona
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“Doing what I set out to do, perform activism with ink.”
—Rigoberto González
Two friends are chatting over lunch in New York. One is a native of Texas, the other is from California. Both are Chicano ...
Portrait of the Poet as Critic (& Thinker) by Francisco Aragón
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Review by Alexandra Lytton Regalado
His Tongue a Swath of Sky
Poetry by Francisco Aragón
momotombito press, 2019
The Companion Thread
Francisco Aragón excels at bringing people together; having founded ...
Review: His Tongue a Swath of Sky by Francisco Aragón
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Reviewed by Sophia Ihlefeld
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
Nonfiction by Malala Yousafzai
Little, Brown and Company
$12.50, 244 ...
Review: We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
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Deaf Republic
Poems by Ilya Kaminsky
Graywolf Press, March 2019
$16.00, 96 pp.
978-1555978310
Kaminsky’s much awaited second book is a reverential ballad to the silences during war when we can find love. ...
Review: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
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Reviewed by Ronnie K. Stephens
If They Come for Us
Poems by Fatimah Asghar
One World, Random House Imprint, August 2018
$16.00, 128 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0525509783
Fatimah Asghar redefines poetry in her ...
Review: If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
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