Birthday Girl by Sheila J. Sadr
Sadr shines in her composition of concise statements on gender, with gut-punch assertions about the essential truths of being a woman, rendered in stunning fragments.
The Sacramento of Desire – Julia Bloch
[Bloch] catalogues the responses in her body, all the while trying to find a language that is corporeal, embodied, that is, literally of the body: a sign that she is fertile.
Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede – Mike Corrao
The body of each billionaire is deteriorating and will become its own soup or ash.
The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here – Susanne Paola Antonetta
THE TERRIBLE UNLIKELIHOOD OF OUR BEING HERE is meant for anyone who, in Antonetta’s words, feels the need to “scratch life and make it bleed a little and know you’re here.”
Zabor, or the Psalms – Kamel Daoud
One could say that writing is a small act of rebellion against death.
At One End / Midwestern Infinity Doctrine – Ulrich Jesse K. Baer
This linguistic merging is also a thaw evoking an apparition of identity, haunted luminescence of self-in-mutation.
On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt – Ann Heberlein
The priceless contribution of Heberlein’s book, for all its occasional bowdlerizing, is that it offers the requisite connective tissue for the grand and the ground-level.
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski – Dhanveer Singh Brar
Brar’s book marks an important step in understanding the value of this music and how it allowed these black electronic musicians, DJ’s and MC’s to prosper against all the odds.
A Strange Woman tells of a woman’s love affair with life, though it is a life that existed before her and will exist long after.
The Copenhagen Trilogy – Tove Ditlevsen
Critics reading Tove Ditlevsen’s work will dutifully make reference to her working-class roots, but seem unwilling to consider what impact these experiences might have had on her as a young writer.