By Loisa Fenichell Long Exposure. Julia Anna Morrison. Moon City Press, 2023. $14.95 Grief and the Moon: A Review of Julia Anna Morrison’s Long Exposure “The moon is the only model I have for motherhood,” Julia Anna Morrison writes in her award-winning debut poetry...
By Elaina Friedman You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Ed. Ada Limón. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2024. $25.00 Walking home from a friend’s house in Seattle in the spring of 2021, I spotted a small grayish bird sitting in the middle of a busy sidewalk. It...
By Rebecca Valley Dutton, Danielle. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other. Coffee House Press, 2024. $17.95 Opening Spaces: A Review of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton PRAIRIE When I enter Danielle Dutton’s latest book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, the...
By Katherine James Tolchinsky, Raisa. Glass Jaw. Persea Books, 2024. $17.00. How Hard a Thing It Is to Say: On Feminist Revisioning, Vulnerability, and Touch in Raisa Tolchinsky’s Glass Jaw There’s a strong tradition in contemporary poetry (well, in contemporary...
By Nicole Yurcaba Kusserow, Adrie. The Trauma Mantras. Duke University Press, 2024. $19.95. A Critique of Western Concepts of the Self, the Individual, Privilege, and Trauma: A Review of Adrie Kusserow’s The Trauma Mantras In the poetic meditations which comprise...
By Kay E. Bancroft Bertino, Marie-Helene. Beautyland. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2024. $28.00 Beautyland Reconnects You to Humanity’s Tenderness—Through an Alien The contemporary world is one that is persistently pushing us to wonder if there is still a positive...
By Alina Stefanescu Maya Jewell Zeller. Out Takes/ Glove Box. New American Press. November 2023. $18 "& something not wedded": A reading of Maya Jewell Zeller's Out Takes/ Glove Box I Catullus may have written an apostrophe to his boat, but Maya Jewell Zeller has...
By Shannon Nakai Tómasdóttir, Kristín Svava. Herostories. Deep Vellum, 2022. $16.95 “Nature” vs “Nurture”: Found Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Icelandic Midwives in Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Herostories In the ambitious and lyrically rendered newest collaborative...
By Lisa Grgas Bromwich, Kathryn. At the Edge of the Woods. Two Dollar Radio, 2023. $18.50 Kathryn Bromwich’s novel, At the Edge of the Woods, is a haunting and enigmatic debut from a promising new author. The novel follows Laura, a woman living alone in a cabin in the...