Reviewed by Michael T. Young
The View from the Body
Poems by Renee Ashley
Black Lawrence Press, 2016
$15.95; 75 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1625579553
In his poem, “Prime,” W.H. Auden dissects that moment ...
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Reviewed by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
Spill
Poems by Kelle Groom
Anhinga Press, October 2017
$20.00; 118 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1934695548
There is an untrammelled and bounding energy that resists constraint in ...
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Reviewed by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers
Cattle of the Lord
Poems by Rosa Alice Branco, translation by Alexis Levitin
Milkweed Editions, December 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-482-6
$16.00; 96 pp.
Rosa Alice ...
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Reviewed by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers
Mega-City Redux
Poems by Alyse Knorr
Green Mountains Review Books, February 2016
$15.00; 62 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9963342-2-8
As the author notes, Mega-City Redux ...
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Reviewed by Susan Thurston
Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare
by Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla
Tupelo Press, April 2016
$32.95; 500 ...
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Reviewed by Brady Krien
A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters
Amy and Dave Freeman
Milkweed Editions, September 2017
$35.00; 303 pp.
ISBN: 978-1571313669
In his 1956 book, The ...
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Reviewed by Charles Holdefer
Everyone Was There: Stories
Fiction by Anthony Varallo
Elixir Press, May 2017
$19.00; 168 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1932418637
Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award, Everyone Was ...
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2017 was an incredible year for new books, so we asked our staff to share a few of their favorites. Here are the highlights of what our editors read over the last 356 days.
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us ...
LAR’s The Best Books of the Year
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Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability
Essays by Kelly Davio
Squares and Rebels, October 2017
$17.98; 133 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-941960-06-6
To say that Kelly Davio’s account of ...
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