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Reviewed by Tyler Robert Sheldon Set to Music a Wildfire Poems by Ruth Awad Southern Indiana Review Press, October 2017 $14.95, 84 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1930508408 Ruth Awad’s debut poetry collection Set ...

Review: Set to Music a Wildfire by Ruth Awad

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Reviewed by B.J. Hollars The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts Tessa Fontaine Farrar, Straus, & Giroux $27.00; 384 pp ISBN: 978-0374158378 Eating fire has its risks, but so does not ...

Review: The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine

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Reviewed by Sophia Ihlefeld Isadora A Novel by Amelia Gray Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2017 $16.51, 401 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0374279981 Isadora tells the survival story of the radical American dancer, ...

Review: Isadora by Amelia Gray

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Reviewed by Maggie Trapp God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna Stories by Kellie Wells University of Notre Dame Press, 2017 $50.00, 192 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0268102258 A severed arm still wearing an expensive ...

Review: God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna by Kellie Wells

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Reviewed by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson Shadow-feast Poems by Joan Houlihan Four Way Books, March 2018 $15.95, 64 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1945588082 Shadow-feast is a tour de force sheared of excess, breathtaking ...

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Reviewed by Joan Gelfand Landings Poems by Andrena Zawinski Kelsey Books, April 2017 $17.00, 98 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1945752728   It’s tempting to bury our pasts. Haunted by the ghosts of ...

Review: Landings by Andrena Zawinski

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Reviewed by Maggie Trapp Emblems of the Passing World Poems by Adam Kirsch Other Press, October 2015 $13.99, 144 pp. ISBN: 978-1590517345 Captured in time, faces in photographs are endlessly ...

Review: Emblems of the Passing World by Adam Kirsch

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Reviewed by Maggie Trapp The Multitude Hannah Faith Notess Southern Indiana Review Press, December 2015 76 pp., $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-930508330 In The Multitude, winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize, ...

Review: The Multitude by Hannah Faith Notess

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Reviewed by Joanna R. Demkiewicz Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival  A Memoir by Kelly Sundberg HarperCollins, June 2018 $12.99, 272 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0062497673 In 2014, ...

Review: Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg

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