reviewed by Olga Livshin
Letdown
Sonia Greenfield
White Pine Press, March 2020
$17.00; 102 pp.
ISBN: 9781945680359
I first came to Sonia Greenfield's writing after reading her prose poem that begins ...
Review: Letdown by Sonia Greenfield
Book Reviews, LAR Online
An antler taps the glass before the sun comes on
this is how I’ll know it’s November
the deer fog-browsing for something more
a window’s drip a ditch pursing water
I carry myself ungently
from place to place I ...
The Deer House by Sara Michas-Martin
LAR Online, Poetry
Before Mariko went missing, she liked to swim in the open water of the cove, just beyond the tide pools. On days when there was no surf, waves, or wind when sails hung still on catamarans and the sun soaked into the ...
Mariko by Kaylie Saidin
Fiction, LAR Online
reviewed by Jeffery Berg
Daddy
Michael Montlack
NYQ Books, September 2020
$18.95; 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-1630450595
Michael Montlack’s Daddy offers a prism of perspectives through straightforward, pithy, ...
Review: Daddy by Michael Montlack
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Sing in me a dithyramb to salt,
epics of cardamom and sage.
Cypress trees, grow taller please.
Snails, commence your racing.
Let us stoke delicious bonfires
and jig unbridled every night
on the opium sands of ...
Invocation by Christopher Bakken
LAR Online, Poetry
for her sister, a surgeon during this pandemic
I once asked you what it was like to watch people die. We were on our way to drink flights of wine. You described a man’s head filling with fluid until it was the ...
You Work with Death by Maria T. Allocco
LAR Online, Nonfiction
review of books by Megan Cummins and Annie Ernaux
If the Body Allows It
Megan Cummins
University of Nebraska Press, September 2020
$21.95; 270pp.
ISBN: 9781496222831
Happening
Annie ...
Re-Narrating the Lives of Women by Jenessa Abrams
Book Reviews, LAR Online
They arrived the summer after Celine’s divorce, when the Asian pear bore ruddy fruit that she hadn’t the vigor to pick. A pair of ravens swooped in to glean the rotting pears beneath the tree. They built a nest in the ...
S.O.S. by Teresa H. Janssen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Modesty not when the mood strikes,
.................................................when the mood is struck.
I change on a cellular basis in ignorant repetition—the infinite
scroll of a body switched on— ...
Palinody by Caroline Crew
LAR Online, Poetry
