As with anything, it begins
with a conversation. The perfumer
asks your blood type, your dog’s
name and temperament, the color
of the sky on your fourteenth birthday.
Tell her about the oil-metal scent
of your ...
Tailor-Made by Brianna Noll
LAR Online, Poetry
At daybreak, looking out my study’s rain-splattered, second-story window facing the backyard, I saw boughs and leaves unsettled against a backdrop of gray. Strewn on the grass were tulip poplar blooms loosened by wind, ...
Of Reality and Other Illusions by Nancy Naomi Carlson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Mandana Chaffa
The Clearing
Allison Adair
Milkweed Press, June 2020.
$22.00; 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-1571315144
“What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does ...
Review: The Clearing by Allison Adair
Book Reviews, LAR Online
i come from the amber spell of fields, muddy shoals, fools lighting cigarettes in praise of night,
........from the barn-burning i come
from madmen imprisoned in thunder, heedless tumble of autumn’s last fire, ...
Heartland by Maxima Kahn
LAR Online, Poetry
It was late, eleven o’clock, the end of a day in which Katrina had gotten nothing done, avoiding her studio in favor of the trifecta of time wasters, Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. Her husband, Gabriel, stood in ...
The Weather of Menopause by Louise Marburg
Fiction, LAR Online
Translated by Chamini Kulathunga
Toward the middle of the cigarette, my thoughts turned semicircular and started heading eastward, completely defying my expectations. So now, they must travel through the central hills, ...
Eastbound by Ruwan Bandujeewa
LAR Online, Translations
If pregnancy is a season, the answer
is not spring but winter: the body a cave,
a holding cell of hibernation. Of nesting.
Of torpor. If pregnancy plays music, the violin
and its hollow wooden body, its ribs, its ...
Pregnancy Anaphora by Bridget Bell
LAR Online, Poetry
June Cleaver didn’t keep her house in perfect order. The prop man did it. —Barbara Billingsly
An enchantment and virtual bonding with June Cleaver grew over the span of roughly 93 weeks in 2015-16 ...
June: The Mother We Thought We Knew by Cris Mazza
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Brooke Green
A Nail the Evening Hangs On
Poems by Monica Sok
Copper Canyon Press, February 2020.
$17.00; 60 pp.
ISBN: 978-1556595608
Monica Sok’s radiant debut collection, A Nail the ...
Review: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
Book Reviews, LAR Online
