Reviewed by Ryan Boyd
The History of the Future: American Essays
Essays by Edward McPherson
Coffee House Press, May 2017
$16.95; 288 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1566894678
Subtitling one’s book “American ...
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Reviewed by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
Said Not Said
Poems by Fred Marchant
Graywolf Press, May 2017
$16.00; 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977733
Marchant’s generosity is expressed in an extraordinary balance of ...
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Reviewed by Danny Caine
Cold Pastoral
Poems by Rebecca Dunham
Milkweed Editions, March 2017
$16.00; 80 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1571314789
Rebecca Dunham’s Cold Pastoral opens with a fitting epigraph from ...
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Reviewed by Paul David Adkins
Wasp Queen
Poems by Claudia Cortese
Black Lawrence Press, December 2016
$15.95; 90 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1625579607
It’s easy to allow Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen to ...
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Reviewed by Nancy Posey
Wish & Spit
Poems by Kelly DeMaegd
Main Street Rag, February 2017
$14.00; 60 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59948-616-1
Kelly DeMaegd’s poem “Assonance” delivers the recurring ...
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Reviewed by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck and Doug Ramspeck
Afterland
Poems by Mai Der Vang
Graywolf Press, April 2017
$16.00; 104 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977702
All poems bear witness, but of what? Sometimes it ...
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Reviewed by Ray Barker
The Grass Labyrinth
Stories by Charlotte Holmes
BkMk Press, March 2016
$15.95; 158 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1943491049
The ten interweaving pieces in Charlotte Holmes’ latest ...
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Reviewed by BJ Hollars
South and West: From a Notebook
Essays by Joan Didion
Knopf, March 2017
$21.00; 160 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1524732790
In the opening lines of Joan Didion’s canonical essay, “On ...
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Reviewed by Ryan Boyd
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Poems by Morgan Parker
Tin House Books, February 2017
$14.95; 80 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-194104053-9
One way (of many) to describe how good ...
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