Grist Book Reviews
Seeking Stars: Jordan Rice’s Constellarium
Review by Hannah Widdifield // August 7, 2017Orison BooksISBN 978-0-9906917-7-890 pp. / $16.00 In her debut collection of poetry, Jordan Rice guides readers through the
Mostly in Dreams: Chris Santiago’s Tula
Review by Tyler Burdwood // July 31, 2017Milkweed Press, December 2016Paperback, 100pp., $16 Chris Santiago’s first book of poetry, Tula from Milkweed Editions, opens with a definition. It
The Skin that Heats and Sparks: Anya Krugovoy Silver’s From Nothing
Review by Paige Sullivan // March 27, 2017Louisiana State University Press, September 2016Paperback, 80pp. $17.95 Though From Nothing, Anya Silver’s third collection of poetry, begins with
Impossible Questions: Leif Haven’s Arcane Rituals
Review by Justin Goodman // March 13, 20171913 Press, 2016Paperback, 100 pp. $15.00 Exhortations are poetic. Think Homer’s “Tell me, O Muse,” to Rilke’s “you
Stars and Bright Signs: Tawnysha Greene’s A House Made of Stars
Review by Justin LaFreniere // February 27, 2017Burlesque Press, 2015Paperback, 196 pp. $16.95 Tawnysha Greene’s A House Made of Stars opens with danger disguised as play: the
Justin Boening’s Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last
Review by Emily Corwin // January 9, 2017Milkweed Editions, 2016Paperback, 61 pp. $16 Justin Boening’s Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last is a
Quinn Dalton’s Midnight Bowling
Review by Courtney Mullis // December 5, 2016Carolina Wren Press, March 2016Paperback, 263pp. $17.95 Quinn Dalton’s second novel Midnight Bowling is more than just a teenage love
Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry
Review by Paige Sullivan // November 14, 2016University of South Carolina Press, April 2016Hardcover, 312pp. $49.99 Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry anthologizes contemporary Southern poetry filled
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
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