Hive: A Forgery, Shawna Lemay. Self-published, 2012. Reviewed by Tanis MacDonald To say that Shawna Lemay’s poetic prose in Hive: A Forgery reminded me of Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central…
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Spit Temple, Cecilia Vicuña. Trans. Rosa Alcalá. Ugly Duckling Press, 2012. hungree throat, bill bissett. Talonbooks, 2013. Review By Paul Watkins As literary scholar Charles Bernstein states: “What interests me…
The Dark Would: anthology of language art. Ed. Philip Davenport. Apple Pie Editions, 2013. Review by Eric Schmaltz For years now many practitioners who have identified with uncreative writing and…
Thank You for the Window Office, Maged Zaher. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012. Review by Fazeela Jiwa In Thank You for the Window Office, Maged Zaher’s writing echoes the short attentions…
Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle. Wave Books, 2012. Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle. Wave Books, 2013. Review by Nicholas Papaxanthos “I always looked askance at writing on writing,…
The Family China, Ann Shin. Brick Books, 2013. Reviewed by Myna Wallin On the cover of Ann Shin’s second collection of poetry, The Family China, a photograph shows the female…
The Other Side of Youth, Kelli Deeth. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013. Review by Zoe Sharpe Kelli Deeth’s The Other Side of Youth is a collection of acute and subtle short…
La Boutique Obscure, Georges Perec. Trans. Daniel Levin Becker. Melville House, 2013 Review by Alan Reed La Boutique Obscure is a translation of the dream journal kept by Georges Perec…
Notebook M, Gillian Savigny. Insomniac Press, 2012. Review by Nikki Sheppy Winner of the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Gillian Savigny’s Notebook M explores the poetic dimensions of the scientific…
The Hottest Summer in Recorded History, Elizabeth Bachinsky. Harbour Publishing, 2013. Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, Daisy Fried. University of Pittsburg Press, 2013. Review by Lise Gaston Elizabeth Bachinsky’s fifth…
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake, Dany Laferrière. Trans. David Homel. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013. by Julija Šukys Writer Dany Laferrière found himself…
Cutting Room, Sarah Pinder. Coach House Books, 2012. by Diana Jones-Ellis Deeply immersed in an articulation of the materiality of objects, Sarah Pinder’s evocative and haunting collection, Cutting Room, often…