

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...