Bride of the Sea – Eman Quotah
A tale of liminality and family, characters continually trying to piece themselves together among persistent loss. This is the condition of being a migrant, of being in-between, told in a stunning story which spans nearly fifty years.
Migratory Birds – Mariana Oliver
In Oliver’s hands, the essay, like the cassette, is a container that does not dictate content but rather proves to be remarkably capacious.
A Poetics of the Press – ed. Kyle Schlesinger
What emerges is the ideal of a nonconformist, nonhierarchical approach to publishing, spontaneous and attentive to immediate social concerns.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath – Heather Clark
Clark’s biography is not only one of the most impressive examples of the form in recent history, but a long overdue exercise in placing Sylvia Plath firmly within the poetic traditions she helped shape.
Terminal Boredom – Izumi Suzuki
TERMINAL BOREDOM’s predictive nature is historically rooted and justified, finding form in the budding apathy of late Capitalism that was emerging when they were written.
For many readers, Tromblay’s gift may be perspective, a reminder of what a life can really entail, how powerless each of us is to stop what happens to us, and how much strength it takes to keep going.
Lift Up the Stone: The Gospel According to Jonathan – Jonathan Harrington
Idiosyncratic and sometimes startling, these poems demonstrate both the elasticity of the sonnet form and the meditations of a fertile, original mind.
Spilt Milk – Courtney Zoffness
In her imaginative SPILT MILK, Courtney Zoffness strives toward empathy in a way that pushes against the cynicism we’re justified in feeling upon the trotting out of the concept.
Normally there is a safe distance between the reader and the work, however transgressive it is, whereas in Dustan’s writing the language is intimate, precise, explicit, pornographic even, and yet, ultimately, an attack on what is known as “Literature”.
[ECHO TREE] surely does underscore Dumas’s talent as a writer of fiction, although at the same time reminding us that he was so barbarously prevented from fully harvesting that talent.