Grist Book Reviews
My Name Is Romero by David A. Romero
Reviewed by Maggie Rue Hess | March 23, 2021Flowersong Press, 2020Paperback, 109 pages, $20 There are many occasions that prompt us to introduce ourselves: over
Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade
Reviewed by Emily Jalloul // March 17, 2020Mad Creek Books, 2020Paperback, 208 pages, $18.95 “Just An Ordinary Woman Breathing” is Julie Marie Wade’s eleventh book.
Skin Memory by John Sibley Williams
Reviewed by Rachel Harper // March 6, 2020The Backwaters Press, 2020Paperback, 84 pp. $15.95 Loss, the pain that accompanies such an experience, and the process
The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Reviewed by Emily Bradley // December 2, 2019The Kent State University Press, 2019Paperback, 98 pages Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s The Many Names for Mother is a collection of
Infinity Standing Up by Drew Pisarra
Reviewed by Michael Sutherlin // November 4, 2019Capturing Fire Press, 2019Paperback, 68 pp. $10 Drew Pisarra takes on the topic of the modern on-again off-again
Fludde by Peter Mishler
Reviewed by Joseph LaBine // August 30, 2019 I first read Peter Mishler’s book of poetry, Fludde, in manuscript in 2015, and it called up my
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On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel by Brenda Marie Davies
Reviewed by Anna Genevieve Winham | November 22, 2021Eerdmans, April 2021Hardcover, 232 pages, $22.00 On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel is the coming-of-age
Dig Me Out by Amy Lee Lillard
Reviewed by Jennifer Marie Donahue | November 16, 2021Atelier26 Books, October 2021Paperback, 214 pages, $16.00 The ten stories within Amy Lee Lillard’s debut collection, Dig
Tree by Melina Sempill Watts
Reviewed by Melinda Backer | November 2, 2021Change the World Books, April 2017Paperback, 246 pages, $18.00 Tree, a novel written by Melina Sempill Watts, takes on the challenge
Dead Uncles by Ben Kline
Reviewed by Laura Rashley | October 26, 2021Driftwood Press, 2021Paperback, 37 pages, $7.99 In Ben Kline’s latest poetry chapbook, Dead Uncles: Poems, Folklore, Reverie, we’re
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