Review

More Than Mere Light by Jason Koo Prelude Books, 2018 121 pages / Prelude Books   For someone who was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn…

Mirtha Dermisache: Selected Writings by Mirtha Dermisache Edited by Daniel Owen, Lisa Pearson Ugly Duckling Presse, March 2018 128 pages / Ugly Ducking Presse / Amazon   Mirtha Dermisache was…

Note from the editor: This Halloween, we asked you to review your scariest moments in books, with the aim of getting at just what of literature–perhaps even art in general–sticks with…

The following is an excerpt from a long and finely-wrought review I meant to write about the film Covadonga. In it, I give some useful historical context of the film,…

Children of God by Lars Petter Sveen (Trans. by Guy Puzey) Graywolf Press, 2018 256 pages / Graywolf   In an essay for BBC Radio 3 entitled “Christmas Father,” the Norwegian writer…

American Carnage by Sam Cha Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2018 48 pages / Portable Press   The book starts with a little drama. That is, the first “poem” in American Carnage…

Landia by Celina Su Belladonna*, 2018 112 pages / Belladonna*   In her debut collection of poetry, Celina Su meditates on the everydayness of large-scale political and economic processes—be it gentrification, state…

Woman, Running Late, In a Dress by Dallas Woodburn Yellow Flag Press, 2018 178 pages / Yellow Flag   It’s confounding to have the ghost of your seven year old sister haunt…

Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly by Joshua Rivkin Melville House, 2018 464 pages / Melville   It is difficult to write about art in a way that respects its…

Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino Commune Editions, 2018 128 pages / Commune   As I write this nearly 500 migrant children remain trapped in cages in US custody, separated from their parents.…

Hello fellow Entropians! I’m writing–rapping, rapping at your chamber door?–to let you know of an opportunity this month of Halloween over here at Entropy Reviews: on October 31, we’ll be…

To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes Wave Books, 2018 224 pages / Wave   Poets…

Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico by Lauren Camp 3: A Taos Press, 2018 119 pages / 3: A Taos   In June 2013, poet Lauren Camp drove away…

Floating Notes by Babak Lakghomi Tyrant Books, 2018 120 pages / Tyrant Selected Anonymous Marginalia, Volumes I-III ed. Liam Agrani Life-Form Books, July 2018 198 pages / Life-Form   A normal summer storm…