Grist Book Reviews
Voice, Body, Form, Line: Brenna Womer’s Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance
Review by Shane Stricker // December 27, 2018 C&R Press$10.00, pp. 54 Brenna Womer’s Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2017) unfurls like a person aging, unfolding, unraveling, becoming itself. It is
How to Survive the Rest of Your Life: Vanessa Blakeslee’s Perfect Conditions
Review by Samantha Edmonds // November 15, 2018 Several weeks after finishing Vanessa Blakeslee’s Perfect Conditions (Curbside Splendor, 2018), I still feel these stories overflowing in my
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
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
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
Avuncularly Pynchonian: Joe Ponepinto’s Mr. Neutron
Review by David A. Southard // March 20, 20187.13 Books, March 2018Paperback, 300pp., $15.99 You have heard it before: you are the lead in the
Editor Recommends: An Everyday Practice of Starting Over in Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s Either Way, You’re Done
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // February 23, 2018Sundress Publications, October 2017Paperback, 88 pp. $12.99 Former Grist poetry editor Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s first full-length collection of poems Either
Exquisite Desolation: Emily Fridlund’s Catapult
Review by Sarah Appleton // January 18, 2018Sarabande Books, 2017ISBN: 978-1946448057240 pp. / $15.95 Emily Fridlund has had an eventful year: her novel The History of
“Henry Puts the Casual Back in Casualty”: Conor Bracken’s Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour
Review by Allison Pitinii Davis // December 4, 2017Bull City Press, 2017ISBN: 978-1-4951-5768-448 pp. / $12.00 In Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017), winner of the 2017
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