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    Review: Staying Alive by Laura Sims

    October 18, 2016

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    Kate Partridge

    Laura Sims

    Staying Alive

    $12.00

    Ugly Duckling Presse

    Laura Sims’s fourth collection of poetry, Staying Alive (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) enters the conversation of dystopian literature with a challenging meditation on the language of collapse and resilience. Staying Alive is composed of three sections and an afterword, beginning in eerie abstraction after the action of apocalypse has begun. At the reader’s arrival, we find already “The red glow from the East the burning docks” and “Wet leathe...

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    Chapbook Review: Mammoth by Rachel McKibbens

    May 2, 2016

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    Kate Partridge

    Rachel McKibbens

    Mammoth

    $10.00

    Organic Weapon Arts

     

     

    Rachel McKibbens,  noted slam poet, activist, and the author of two books of poetry, presents a compelling series of poems on grief in Mammoth, a beautiful chapbook from Organic Weapon Arts.  

     

    Mammoth approaches all of its subjects—the death of a young niece, the prevalence of loss—with a candor that renders each look wrenching. The chapbook loosely traces the development of the niece’s illness, from the diaper-change discovery of a mass to...

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    Review: Silent Anatomies by Monica Ong

    January 4, 2016

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    Kate Partridge

     

    Monica Ong

    Silent Anatomies

    $17.95

    Kore Press

     

    Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies, winner of the 2014 Kore First Book Prize, is an exciting foray into archival memory and translation. Ong, a poet and artist, uses image and text in innovative collaboration in a book that illuminates experiences of gender, migration, and language in consistently surprising forms.

     

    One of the most striking features of this work is Ong’s use of digitally collaged images, in which text is superimposed over ultrasound sc...

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    Chapbook Review: Absence of Stars by Nicole Rollender

    December 21, 2015

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    Juliet Cook

     

    Nicole Rollender

    Absence of Stars

    $7.00

    dancing girl press

     

    In the 13 poems within Nicole Rollender's chapbook Absence of Stars (dancing girl press, 2015),“A hummingbird’s skeleton opens my hands / like a flower.”  This chapbook is filled with flowers and bones, flight toward the light and falling down onto the ground, tiny and helpless. The beginning of the collection is inspired by the early birth of a tiny baby, a living life form that emerged from the womb too soon, a new life that starts...

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    Review: The Apocalyptic Visions of Natalie Diaz: When My Brother was an Aztec

    July 21, 2015

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    Paul David Adkins

    Natalie Diaz
    When My Brother Was an Aztec
    Copper Canyon Press, 2012
    103 pages, $16.00

     

    “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers” – Ezekiel 25:17

     

    What can you do when the world breaks apart? Turn to Natalie Diaz and her debut poetry collection When My Brother was an Aztec, perhaps the most anguished, eloquent, mournful document emerging from American poetry in the past quarter century. Within three part...

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    Chapbook Review: Cecilia Woloch's Earth

    June 17, 2015

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    Kate Partridge

    Cecilia Woloch
    Earth
    Two Sylvias Press, 2015
    46 pages, $9.90

     

    In Earth, winner of the 2014 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, Cecilia Woloch focuses on the major movements of life—across continents, between childhood and adulthood, and from life to death—in compelling poems that allow each transition its full measure of significance in a network of shifting pieces.

     

    What I appreciate most about these poems is that they are not in a rush. Woloch develops each character, each family, and each n...

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    (Micro)Chapbook (Micro)Review: Jonterri Gadson's Interruptions

    May 29, 2015

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    Kate Partridge

    Jonterri Gadson
    Interruptions
    MIEL, 2014
    Dimensions: 10cm square (cover), 9cm square (text)
    Binding: staple
    12 pages, €5.00

     

    Jonterri Gadson’s Interruptions is the second book in MIEL’s microseries of tiny books—at 10x10cm, about the size of a coaster. What Gadson achieves in this miniature space, however, is quite remarkable; MIEL’s goal of publishing “difficult, interesting, intelligent, deeply felt” work is clearly realized here in three poems that press the brevity of life sharply again...

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    Chapbook Review: Sarah Certa's Juliet (I)

    January 14, 2015

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    Kate Partridge

     

     

    Sarah Certa
    Juliet (I)
    H_NGM_N, 2014

    portable document format, free

     

     

    If you haven’t had a chance to check out H_NGM_N’s digital chapbook series, may I heartily recommend that you do so. The press is publishing 6 chaps per year in free, downloadable pdf format, which is an amazing opportunity to read fresh work regularly.

     

     

    The most recent release (Dec. 2014) is a new chap by H_NGM_N’s Associate Poetry Editor Sarah Certa, who has a full length collection, NOTHING TO DO WITH ME (University...

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    Chapbook Review: Ashley Toliver's Ideal Machine

    December 11, 2014

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    Kathy Goodkin

     

    Ashley Toliver
     Ideal Machine
     Poor Claudia, 2014
     Hand sewn, $10

     

     

    What I actually want to tell you is that I like this book. You should buy it and read it. The poems are beautifully made and surprising. The sequence includes illustrations that complement the poems' image-making. The whole thing makes me feel feelings. But in case my personal recommendation doesn’t carry much weight and you want to know a little more about the book, it seems only fair to tell you that, too.

     

     

    In a series o...

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    Chapbook Review: Khadijah Queen's "I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On"

    November 11, 2014

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    Kate Partridge

     

     

    Khadijah Queen
    I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
    Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013
    Digital Chapbook, $3.00
    18 pages

     

     

    Khadijah Queen, author of the full-length collections Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008) and Black Peculiar (Noemi 2010), has a new digital chapbook available for download from Sibling Rivalry Press: I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. The chap opens with the following directive: “This is a work of fiction.” More specifically, it is a collection of...

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