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Un-American Review by: Mandana Chaffa Written by: Hafizah Geter Wesleyan University Press, September 2020 $15.95 104pp ISBN: 9780819579812     How do we define ourselves? How are we ...

Review: Un-American by Mandana Chaffa

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Reviewed by Thomas Sorensen ISBN: 978-1-951628-02-4 124 pages Release Date: February 17, 2020 Publisher: Civil Coping Mechanisms                Kafka died too young, and The Depression, ...

Review: The Depression by Mathias Svalina and Jon Pack

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reviewed by Bruce Spang Indigo by Ellen Bass Copper Canyon Press, April 2020 $18.00, 64pp ISBN: 978-1556595752 In a recent virtual workshop at Maine Media, Ellen Bass was one of the presenters. Her ...

Review: Indigo by Ellen Bass

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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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