Reviewed by Nancy Posey
The Tiny Journalist
Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
BOA Editions, April 2019
$17.00; 128 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-942-68373-5
Point of view, for any writer of prose or poetry, is a crucial ...
Review: The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Reviewed by Leonora Simonovis
I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
Poems by Tiana Clark
University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2018
$17.00; 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0822965589
The late Toni ...
Review: I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
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Reviewed by Nancy Posey
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Essays by Margaret Renkl
Milkweed editions, 2019
$24.00, 111 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-378-2
The overwhelming crowd at the ...
Review: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
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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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