Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
Essays by Anne Boyer
Ugly Duckling Presse, April 2018
$20.00, 239 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1937027926
Thirty-three essays is a lot for a single ...
Review: A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Near midnight mid-December,
and my junkie uncle, the soldier,
sleepwalks home. Up avenues
strewn with everyday debris,
past rats he imagines man-made
and robot. In his heavy half sleep,
he ...
Variation On a Theme by Gil Scott-Heron, by John Murillo
LAR Online, Poetry
I’ve lived long enough
I’ve lived long enough to see the Bible proven wrong. The rich have inherited the earth. Remember the bestselling myth of The Millionaire Next Door? Forget it. Ever seen the old ...
Two Haibun by Jim Natal
LAR Online, Nonfiction, Poetry
Reviewed by Nancy Posey
Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
Beth Ann Fennelly
W.W. Norton & Company, October 2017
$20.95, 111 pp.
ISBN 978-0-393-60947-9
Most fans of Oxford, Mississippi’s ...
Review: Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
Book Reviews, LAR Online
We built our new house
in a field of lava.
Black pumice lawn.
The land was cheap. Rivers
in the hills ran magma red.
Runoff steamed the angelfish.
An aftershock left the air
placid yet stale. The sun
greened ...
After the Volcano by Jonathan Wells
LAR Online, Poetry
What I learned from THE BIBLE The Movie
If women are the mules of the earth/as Zora Neale Hurston claimed once/in a fictional story/ then a woman carried Mary 100 miles/ ...
Two Poems by Metta Sáma
LAR Online, Poetry
Translated by Ljubica Arsovska and Patricia Marsh
Hump
In front of me a man is pushing
a barrow full of empty plastic bottles.
The path is narrow, I can’t overtake him.
I follow him, watch ...
Three Poems by Lidija Dimkovska
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems
Poems by Maya Catherine Popa
New Michigan Press, February 15, 2017
$9.00; 48 pp.
ISBN: 978-1934832592
You Always Wished ...
Review: Two Chapbooks by Maya Catherine Popa
Book Reviews, LAR Online
There is No Place for Grief in a House that Serves the Muse
Bike made of trees,
water made of bike.
Deep in the sunblink
you invite me, pull
remnants from the creek
where you drowned
a pinto ...
Two Poems by Alyse Knorr
LAR Online, Poetry
