

Brocken Spectre
by Jacques J. Rancourt
Alice James Books
100 Pages
September 14, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1948579209
Review by Erica Charis-Molling
What does it mean to love when one’s love has ...
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Saga Boy, a heart-warming memoir by Antonio Michael Downing, is a story of the impact of unaddressed generational trauma on a family. In four acts and an epilogue, Downing chronicles his life from his childhood in ...
Saga Boy by Antonio Michael Downing Review by Carol Mitchell
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Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer is a book everyone should read. Kati Standefer has long QT syndrome, and her doctor decides that she needs the surgical implant ...
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer Review by Dr. Kate Gale
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Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin
Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021
Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary
Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
In the beginning, a garden was the theater and launchpad for ...
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
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Take Care is the brave and arrestingly beautiful second poetry collection to come from Eunice Andrada. Andrada delves (as she characteristically does) straight to the heart of what it means to be a young woman of diaspora, ...
Take Care by Eunice Andrada Review by Leila Lois
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Letting the Sound Wake You: Renée Gregorio’s Abyss & Bridge
A Taos Press, 2021
In Renée Gregorio’s latest collection Abyss & Bridge, the narrator of the poem “12 Crop Circles: India” is told: ...
Letting the Sound Wake You: Renée Gregorio’s Abyss & Bridge review by Devon Balwit
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Focal Point by Jenny Qi
Steel Toe Books
October 2021
ISBN 978-1-949540-26-0
87 pages
Book Review by Angelo Mao
A “focal point,” the title of Jenny Qi’s first collection of poetry, is the location ...
Focal Point by Jenny Qi Review by Angelo Mao
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As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth and Other Poems
Poems by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Review by Katherine E. Young
Seagull Books, 2021
$19.00
124 pp.
ISBN 978 0 8574 2 877 ...
As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth and Other Poems Review by Katherine E. Young
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Curb
Divya Victor
review by Mandana Chaffa
Nightboat Books, April 2021, 128 pages, $17.95
Divya Victor’s Curb explores immigration, identity, and the boundaries that keep us safe and those that ...