Reviewed by Brooke Green
A Nail the Evening Hangs On
Poems by Monica Sok
Copper Canyon Press, February 2020.
$17.00; 60 pp.
ISBN: 978-1556595608
Monica Sok’s radiant debut collection, A Nail the ...
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by Joshua Escobar
Wild Invocations
Ysabel Y. González
Get Fresh Books, March 2019.
$20.00; 70 pp.
ISBN:0998935859
Recollections, resolutions, and rifts make up this collection, which focuses on a young ...
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Review by Miranda Cooper
Perfect Tunes
Emily Gould
Avid Reader Press, April 2020.
$26.00; 288pp.
ISBN: 978-1-50119-749-9
The premise of Emily Gould’s sophomore novel, Perfect Tunes—a twentysomething ...
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Review by Donna Miscolta
This Is One Way to Dance
Sejal Shah
University of Georgia Press, June 2020.
$22.95; 200 pp.
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5723-2
What does a group of essays, together and separately, say to ...
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Review by Tim Lantz
My Mountain Country
Poems by Ye Lijun, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
World Poetry Books, August 2019
$16.00, 208 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-9992613-4-7
My Mountain Country, Ye Lijun’s ...
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Review by Kate Carmody
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
One World, February 2020.
$27.00; 224 pp.
ISBN: 978-1984820365
In Minor Feelings, poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong ...
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Review by Bryan Miller
A Beginning at the End
Mike Chen
Mira Books, January 2020.
$26.99; 400pp.
ISBN: 978-0-77830-934-5
Now is exactly the time for Mike Chen’s brand of pandemic novel. Much how his ...
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Review by Roy White
Rue
Kathryn Nuernberger
BOA Editions, April 2020.
$17.00, 99 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-942683-97-1
I’ve read that torturers come to like their work and any
of us could, because we don’t ...
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Review by Stephanie Panozzo
What We Inherit
Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Unnamed Press, April 2020.
$26.00, 264 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-95121-307-7
What prompted me to finally read What We Inherit were wise words from ...
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