These measly fractions of
our lives—the crumbs
we horde shivering
and the theoretical
models of its atoms
which we first have
to sketch,
then believe in, then rage
to remember—
they're just ...
Incorruptible Actuality, a poem by Dan Smart
LAR Online, Poetry
Translated by Jennifer Buentello
My Arrival
Oh, how futile it is to navigate around the islands
Álvaro Mutis
1.
It took me ten years to return to Galápagos.
Those lists of light flowing like rivers from ...
Selections from Galápagos by Malva Flores
LAR Online, Translations
Reviewed by Thomas Moody
Dragging Anchor
Poems by Keri Marinda Smith
Hanging Loose Press, April 2018
$18.00, 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1934909553
“For Gainesville.” Keri Marinda Smith dedicates her ...
Review: Dragging Anchor by Keri Marinda Smith
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Reviewed by Natalie Sypolt
Lost in the Beehive
A novel by Michele Young-Stone
Simon & Schuster, April 2018
$16.00, 298 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1451657647
We’re all familiar with the phrase “beauty is ...
Review: Lost in the Beehive by Michele Young-Stone
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Reviewed by Doug Ramspeck and Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
Saudade
Poems by Traci Brimhall
Copper Canyon Press, November 2017
$16.00, 109 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1556595172
Sigmund Freud referred to religion as a ...
Review: Saudade by Traci Brimhall
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Yardwork
Every weekend I give you chores:
rake, fill feeders, give the grass a mow.
My body, too, is told to work, while yours—
lush and flowering on all scores—
is asked to wait for what mine might grow.
All ...
Three Poems by Keetje Kuipers
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Joanna R. Demkiewicz
Belly Up
Stories by Rita Bullwinkel
A Strange Object, May 2018
$14.59, 192 pp.
ISBN-13:978-0998518435
Rita Bullwinkel’s debut collection of stories Belly Up is ...
Review: Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Reviewed by Marcos Gonsalez
Essay of Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color
Poetry Anthology
Nightboat, May 2018
$16.77, 204 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1937658786
A photograph in the archive of American ...
Review: Essay of Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color
Book Reviews, LAR Online
For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror…
—Rainer Maria Rilke
For my father
I. The JUNIPER BERRIES
Fear’s what quickens me.
To steal juniper berries from heaven,
from the hands of these ...
The History of Gin by Jessica Bundschuh
LAR Online, Poetry
