The New *There*: The Politics of Access in Sherwin Bitsui’s Dissolve Jay Deshpande Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019. 80 pages. $16.00 Reading contemporary poetry, we tend to treat the speaking I as the key to understanding questions of identity. But...
"What I mean is”: On Nina Boutsikaris’s I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych Austyn Gaffney New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2019. 140 pages. $16.95 Nina Boutsikaris is a sieve. What I mean is, in her first book, the memoir I’m Trying to Tell You I’m...
Rewriting the Technicolor Narrative: A Review of Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus Dorothy Chan Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2019. 119 pages. $16.00 Sex. Surveillance. Survival. Sally Wen Mao’s second poetry collection, Oculus takes the reader on a cinematic passage from...