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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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Reviewed by Sophia Ihlefeld We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World Nonfiction by Malala Yousafzai Little, Brown and Company $12.50, 244 ...

Review: We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai

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Deaf Republic Poems by Ilya Kaminsky Graywolf Press, March 2019 $16.00, 96 pp. 978-1555978310 Kaminsky’s much awaited second book is a reverential ballad to the silences during war when we can find love. ...

Review: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

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Reviewed by Ronnie K. Stephens If They Come for Us Poems by Fatimah Asghar One World, Random House Imprint, August 2018 $16.00, 128 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0525509783 Fatimah Asghar redefines poetry in her ...

Review: If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

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Reviewed by Charlotte Kupsh View Stories by Glen Pourciau Four Way Books, March 2017 $17.95, 168 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1935536895 Glen Pourciau’s second collection of short stories, View, offers a vivid ...

Review: View by Glen Pourciau

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