Reviewed by Rhonda Lancaster
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Essays by Sonya Huber
University of Nebraska Press, March 2017
$17.95; 204 ...
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Reviewed by Danny Caine
I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
A Cross-genre Narrative by Khadijah Queen
YesYes Books, March 2017
$18.00; 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1936919468
Khadija Queen’s ...
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Reviewed by Ryan Boyd
Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
Nonfiction by Ted Geltner
University of Georgia Press, May 2016
$32.95; 448 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0820349237
Literary history teems ...
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Reviewed by John W. W. Zeiser
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Poems by Chen Chen
BOA Editions, April 2017
$16.00; 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1942683339
Chen Chen’s debut ...
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Reviewed by Alix Anne Shaw
Blackacre
Poems by Monica Youn
Graywolf Press, September 2016
$16.00; 88 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977504
Throughout her thoughtful and thought-provoking third collection, Monica ...
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Reviewed by Jill Moyer Sunday
Letters to a Young Muslim
Nonfiction by Omar Saif Ghobash
Picador, January 2017
£16.99; 272 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1509842599
The intersection of fundamentalist Islamic ...
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Reviewed by John W. W. Zeiser
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
Poems by Aja Monet
Haymarket Books, May 2017
$16.00; 120 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1608467679
“Gestures in good faith do not change oppression,” ...
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Reviewed by Charlotte Kupsh
Person/a
A novel by Elizabeth Ellen
Short Flight/Long Drive Books, February 2017
$19.00; 616 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9896950-6-0
In her dizzying, metatextual debut novel, ...
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Reviewed by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Poems by Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib
Button Poetry, July 2016
$16.00; 124 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1943735044
An older reader (like this one) might ...
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