By David Roderick
Survival Songs
Marginalia: Chet’la Sebree, Andrew Ciotola, Ron Tanner, G.C. Waldrep
The Sum of Trifles, by Julia Ridley Smith. University of Georgia Press, 238 pp., $22.95.
Julia Ridley Smith’s memoir-in-essays, The Sum of Trifles, begins with an invitation from her … Read the rest
“A Knife Housed in Glass”: Grief and Art in Victoria Chang
By Katie Berta
OBIT, by Victoria Chang. Copper Canyon Press, 120 pp., $17
In her newest poetry collection, OBIT, Victoria Chang quotes John Updike, who wrote, “Each day, we … Read the rest
In Praise of Hereness
By Esteban Rodríguez
Twice Alive, by Forrest Gander. New Directions, 96 pp., $16.95.
Strip, by Jessica Abughattas. University of Arkansas Press, 75 pp., $16.95.
I Thought There Would
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By Corey Van Landingham
All Heathens, by Marianne Chan. Sarabande Books, 74 pp., $15.95.
Field Music, by Alexandria Hall. Ecco, 77 pp., $16.99.
Bodega, by Su
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By Christian Detisch
A Better Place Is Hard To Find, by Aaron Fagan. The Song Cave 84 pp., $17.95
Un-American, by Hafizah Geter, Wesleyan University Press, 104 pp., $10.78.
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By Kylan Rice
Black Sun, by Toby Martinez de las Rivas. Faber & Faber, 72 pp., $15.92.
The Glass Constellation, by Arthur Sze. Copper Canyon, 562 pp., $35.
Earth is
… Read the restThis Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
Ai’s Killing Floor (1979)
Edited by Shara Lessley
I first read Ai’s poetry as an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine—or, rather, it read me. Read into my conscience, … Read the rest
