Reviews

Divination with a Human Heart Attached – Emily Stoddard

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These poems leave us with a gentle litany of things left behind—things more suitable, perhaps, for the more subtle shades of grief.

Natural History – Brandon Kilbourne

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As much as natural history is a history of disappearances and extinctions, it is also a repository of evolutions and potentials.

Ugliness – Moshtari Hilal

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The nose is not just cartilage and skin; it is inheritance, race, femininity, a mark of refusal, a repository of hatred and desire.

Berlin Atomized – Julia Kornberg

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We can’t use irony to cope with catastrophe forever.

Bodies Found in Various Places – Elvira Hernández

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Hernández offers readers a poetry of survival and disturbance, but only as much as we can cup in our hands.

Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun

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Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.

The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero

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“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape