Review

All Flowers Bloom by Kawika Guillermo Westphalia Press, March 2020 345 Pages / Amazon   Ever since their first incarnation, Soul 871 has been drawn towards their soul mate who…

Sin of Semantics by Saima Afreen Copper Coin (Delhi), 2019 Pages 122 / Amazon India   Saima Afreen is an award-winning poet and journalist who has received the Writer of…

Trove: A Woman’s Search for Truth and Buried Treasure by Sandra A. Miller Brown Paper Press, September 2019 220 pages / BPP / Amazon   Coming to grips with one’s…

So Be It by Ralph Culver WolfGang Press, 2018 chapbook / Amazon   “And this hunger. How it goes on, and tomorrow, and always, / blazing up in the body,…

The Ruins by Mat Osman Repeater, February 2020 398 pages / Repeater / Amazon   The glass chose to reflect only what he saw which was enough for his purpose…

Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy Atlantic Books, November 2020 112 pages / Amazon (pre-order now)   Exquisite Cadavers is a novel in two simultaneous parts – a fictional story of…

Ina-Baby: a love story in reverse by Benjamin Drevlow Cowboy Jamboree Press, October 2019 267 pages / Amazon   The concept of a contemporary book of fiction chronicling a marriage…

Stopgap by Isaac Miller Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, 2019 Purchase   Winner of the 2018 Sow’s Ear Chapbook Competition, Isaac Ginsberg Miller’s new chapbook Stopgap forms a manifesto on temporality,…

Temporary by Hilary Leichter Coffee House Press, March 2020 208 pages / Amazon / CHP (available for preorder)   Upon finishing Hilary Leichter’s debut novel Temporary, I was left with…

Fur Not Light by Jeff Alessandrelli Burnside Review, September 2019 77 pages / Amazon / SPD / BR   Jeff Alessandrelli’s Fur Not Light—a title borrowed from Russian Absurdist Daanil…

Two Californias by Robert Glick C&R Press, November 2019 190 pages / Amazon / SPD / C&R Press   As much as folks might love the tidy endings and banal…

Selected Stories by Troy James Weaver Apocalypse Party, January 2020 78 pages / AP / Amazon   In ‘Construction’, the opening story of Troy James Weaver’s Selected Stories, a worker—Kit—finds a…

Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields by Penelope Rosemont City Lights Publishers, November 2019 206 pages / Amazon / City Lights   1.) Dancin’ in the Streets I’ve spent the better…

Swift – New and Selected Poems by David Baker W.W. Norton, April 2019 160 pages / Amazon   In October of 2019, the journal Science published a study estimating the…