May 28, 2024
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 collection Long Exposure, in which Morrison adopts an older theme—the moon as a matrilineal symbol—and explores it through poems that are at ...
May 09, 2024
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 blinked its shiny black eyes fixedly toward a row of bushes as if it were waiting for something to come out, looking unbothered by the rush of commuters ...
April 26, 2024
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 narrator is nameless. In the prairie, only plants and animals have names. And it’s this anonymous “she” that I follow into Dutton’s first ...
April 12, 2024
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 literature as a whole—thanks, Margaret Atwood) of feminist revisioning. Think of Louise Glück’s Meadowlands and Averno, Rita Dove’s Mother Love, ...