Grist Book Reviews
Rosa Liksom’s Compartment No. 6
Review by Torrie Jay White // October 24, 2016Graywolf Press, August 2016Paperback, 192 pp., $16 Compartment No. 6 is a tense, terse, dense novel. In less
In the Room Made of Broken Mockingbirds: Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // September 19, 2016Copper Canyon Press, April 2016Paperback, 70 pp. $16 Ocean Vuong’s debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, has
Emily O’Neill’s Make a Fist & Tongue the Knuckles
Review by Emily Corwin // August 29, 2016Nostrovia Press, June 2016Paperback, 30 pp. $5.00 What I love and admire about O’Neill’s poems is where they
Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity
Review by Ryo Yamaguchi // August 15, 2016Edited by Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth SmithSundress Press, March 2016Paperback, 236 pp, $20.00 When I finished reading Political
Reconstructing the End: Jeff Wood’s The Glacier
Review by Joe Seale // August 1, 2016Two Dollar Radio, Oct. 2015Paperback, 160 pp., $15.95 The early pages of Jeff Wood’s cinematic novel The Glacier depict a
To Take Note of Where We Are: Adam Clay’s Stranger
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // February 26, 2016Milkweed Editions, February 2016Paperback, 96pp. $16 Adam Clay’s third book, Stranger, examines the ways we can be estranged
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Girl, Deconstructed: Erin Hoover’s Barnburner
Review by Stephanie Walls // October 9, 2018Elixir Press, 2018$17.00 Erin Hoover fearlessly explores and reports on the experiences of a young Millennial woman entering
The Death of Empathy: Anna Moschovakis’ Eleanor or the Rejection of the Progress of Love
Review by Amy Lee Lillard // September 9, 2018Coffee House Press, August 2018Paperback, 224 pp. $16.95 Something has happened to Eleanor, the thirty-nine-year-old teacher and
The Wolf at the Door: Darren Demaree’s Two Towns Over
Review by Donna Vorreyer // July 31, 2018 Trio House Press, 2018Paperback, 84 pp, $16 Meet the wolf. Seductive. Dangerous. In Darren Demaree’s Two Towns Over,
A Conversation of Selves: Canese Jarboe’s dark acre
Review by Emily Corwin // July 13, 2018Willow Springs BooksACME Poetry Series, 2018 Neosporin Pussy Queen, Rodeo Queen, Rapunzel, figurine, showgirl, apex predator, a midnight
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