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Laura Villareal
On Colonialism and Climate CrisisMuse Found in a Colonized Body, by Yesenia Montilla. Four Way Books, 108pp., $17.95banana [ ], by Paul Hlava Ceballos. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 112, $18.00… Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
“Stay With Me”: A Review, and a Case for DifficultyCanopy, by Linda Gregerson. Mariner Books, 96 pp., $14.95.Lion’s Paw, by Kathleen Peirce. Miami University Press, 78 pp., $20.Best Barbarian, by Roger Reeves. W.W. Norton & … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Soto’s work reminds us that the San Joaquin Valley remains a ‘place of wonderment—yes, wonderment,’ whose people are, among other things, complex, hard-working, faithful, imaginative, hopeful, caring, animated, cultured, enduring.”
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Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Steve Almond
All the Secrets of the World, by Steve Almond. Zando Projects, 416 ppl, $28. For twenty years, Steve Almond has enjoyed a widely-lauded career as a writer of short … Read the rest
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Esteban Rodríguez
No Longer the BystanderWhy the Assembly Disbanded, by Roberto Tejada. Fordham University Press, 88 pp., $16.95.instrumentation for distributed empathy monetization, by William Lessard. Kernpunkt Press, 40 pp., $14.95. Winter Phoenix,… Read the rest
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Four Takes: Devon Walker-Figueroa’s PHILOMATH
“In the hands of Walker-Figueroa … enjambment is not just a craft technique—hers is an existential enjambment.”
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Laura Villareal
Mythmaking in Three DebutsSwallowed Light, by Michael Wasson. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $17. Philomath, by Devin Walker-Figueroa. Milkweed Editions, 104 pp., $16. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, by C.T. Salazar. … Read the rest
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Shara Lessley
One Vast Shadow: The Poetry of (Self)PerspectiveBrocken Spectre, by Jacques Rancourt. Alice James Books, 100 pp., $18.95.West Portal, by Benjamin Gucciardi. Unviersity of Utah Press, 64 pp., $14.95.The Curious Thing, by Sandra … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kyrie’s sonnets aren’t only in conversation with historical events … but with the history of verse itself.”
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Survival Songs
By David Roderick Oh You Robot Saints!, by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 96 pp., $15.95.Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez. BOA Editions, 122 … Read the rest
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