‘Neighbor’ is everywhere and nowhere. ‘Neighbor’ is out. ‘Neighbor’ is shushing her child. ‘Neighbor’ is simultaneously desired and despised. In this way ‘neighbor’ is that part of ourselves that we both long for and revile.
Good Stock Strange Blood – Dawn Lundy Martin
Martin takes no heed; the pages of this book are rife with violence, both outside and within the family, the home.
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks – Aaron Shurin
Sitting beside Aaron, bathed together in the afternoon light, he points to his apartment windows, the structural yieldings to the sky.
To Love the Coming End – Leanne Dunic
This Japan is pedestrian and epic, lyric and prosaic, like so much of the book.