The Cracks are How the Light Gets In: Amy Strauss Friedman’s The Eggshell Skull Rule
Review by Donna Vorreyer // June 22, 2018Kelsay Books, 2018Paperback, 78pp. $14.00 “For every//passageway leads to potential/and to poison. We drink//what we can, reaching and grateful.” This line is from the titular poem of Amy Strauss Friedman’s collection The Eggshell Skull Rule. The poem’s epigraph explains the meaning of the “eggshell skull rule.” It states that […]
Searching the Roots of Female Existence : Melissa Queen’s Girls Named for Flowers
Review by Jocelyn Heath // June 13, 2018dancing girl press, 2017Paperback, 32 pp. $7 We may never meet young women named Zephyranthes, Ipomoea, and Caladium in real life, but we do in Melissa Queen’s Girls Named for Flowers. In her debut chapbook, Queen grapples with sweeping questions of femininity and identity. Where the title seems to beckon us toward pretty things, Queen shifts our […]