

Reviewed by Kims Jacobs-Beck
Prayer Book for the Anxious
Poems by Josephine Yu
Elixir Press, October 2016
$17.00, 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1932418583
Prayer Book for the Anxious is wry and playful, ...
Review: Prayer Book for the Anxious by Josephine Yu
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Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
Good Bones
Poems by Maggie Smith
Tupelo Press, October 1, 2017
$16.95; 112 pp.
ISBN: 978-1946482082
“Let me love the world the way I love,” Maggie Smith says in “Rain, ...
Review: Good Bones by Maggie Smith
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Reviewed by Riley Mang
So Much Blue
A Novel by Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, June 2017
$16.00, 257 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977825
Percival Everett’s latest novel, So Much Blue, begins with a ...
Review: So Much Blue by Percival Everett
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Review by Rochelle Spencer
Meet Behind Mars
Stories by Renee Simms
Wayne State University Press, May 2018
$18.99, 144 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0814345122
What It Means When a Man Falls ...
Review: The Secret of Black Girl Magic
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Reviewed by Tyler Robert Sheldon
Rail
Poetry by Kai Carlson-Wee
BOA Editions, April 2018
$16.00, 104 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1942683582
Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut poetry collection Rail—a brave examination of ...
Review: Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee
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Reviewed by Kitty Anarchy
Barbie Chang
Poetry by Victoria Chang
Copper Canyon Press (November, 2017)
$12.80, 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1556595165
Victoria Chang’s poetry collection Barbie Chang looks at ...
Review: Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang
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Reviewed by Ann Beman
Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
Nonfiction by Ted Scheinman
FSG Originals, March 2018
$14; 176 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0865478213
“Some are born Janeites, ...
Review: Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
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Reviewed by Paul David Adkins
Notes on the End of the World
Poems by Meghan Privitello
Black Lawrence Press, 2016
$8.95, 34 pp.
978-1625579621
In Meghan Privitello’s chapbook Notes on the End of the ...
Review: Notes on the End of the World by Meghan Privitello
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Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
Irradiated Cities
Poems by Mariko Nagai
Les Figues Press, August 2017
$17.00, 144 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1934254684
Irradiated Cities is impossible to leave at a remove from ...