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Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-jin
translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang,
reviewed by Jacqueline Schaalje

January 12, 2023 Contributed By: Jacqueline Schaalje, Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin

The daring viewpoint of a homophobe widow makes for a toe-curling, but also hopeful read in the riveting Korean bestseller by Kim Hye-jin, Concerning My Daughter, dealing with the loneliness and ostracism of a lesbian couple and a single elderly woman.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Reviews, Translation Posted On: January 12, 2023

“Your Eyes In the Darkness”
A Review of Rick White’s Talking to Ghosts at Parties
by Chase Erwin

November 17, 2022 Contributed By: Chase Erwin, Rick White

Talking to Ghosts at Parties book cover

White drags the reader, as if by the collar, through moments in time and space that reflect and refract each other, both literally and thematically.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Fiction, Reviews Posted On: November 17, 2022

Impossible Belonging by Maya Pindyck
reviewed by Barbara Schwartz

November 10, 2022 Contributed By: Barbara Schwartz, Maya Pindyck

Impossible Belonging Cover

Lyrical, imagistic, playful, profound, Maya Pindyck’s new collection of poems, Impossible Belonging, celebrates abundance, welcoming Dickinson’s nobody and Whitman’s multitudes.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: November 10, 2022

Review of Liminal and Nadir by Laura Fusco
translated from the Italian by Caroline Maldonado
reviewed by Jacqueline Schaalje

November 3, 2022 Contributed By: Jacqueline Schaalje

Liminal and Nadir, two poetry books by Laura Fusco, present the voices of refugees in as direct a way as possible so we can feel and recognize their experiences.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Reviews, Translation Posted On: November 3, 2022

Motherhood and Mental Illness: On Blue by Erin Wilson
by Emilee Kinney

October 3, 2022 Contributed By: Emilee Kinney, Erin Wilson

Blue cover

For a collection steeped in drowning, Wilson continuously keeps readers afloat, buoyed by the promise and ever-present force of a mother’s love.

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: October 3, 2022

The Owner of the Sea by Richard Price
reviewed by Jacqueline Schaalje

September 8, 2022 Contributed By: Jacqueline Schaalje, Richard Price

Owner of the Sea by Richard Price

The Owner of the Sea by British poet Richard Price, published by Carcanet, is a poetic retelling of three Inuit stories. It’s not a translation of those stories. They are based on folk stories told by elders and some other sources such as tales by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen. Price describes them as “poetry based on prose translations of live storytelling.” If you thought Inuit busy themselves with fishing and chewing seal skin all day long, let these poem refresh your perspective!

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Reviews, Translation Posted On: September 8, 2022

Shit Cassandra Saw: A Unique and Thrilling Debut
by Angelina Mazza

August 29, 2022 Contributed By: Angelina Mazza

Shit Cassandra Saw cover

“Women can never be emancipated from the stupidity of men.” For MAYDAY, Angelina Mazza reviews Gwen E. Kirby’s remarkable, dark, biting feminist project, Shit Cassandra Saw.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Fiction, Reviews Posted On: August 29, 2022

Danae Younge’s Melanin Sun (-) Blind Spots
Reviewed by Michaela Zelie

July 22, 2022 Contributed By: Danae Younge, Michaela Zelie

Melanin Sun (-) Blind Spots

Danae Younge’s debut chapbook, Melanin Sun (-) Blind Spots grapples with the loss of her father, missing history, and identity as multiracial queer woman in a cis-white-heteropatriarchy. Younge’s chapbook is composed of ten poems that orbit the persistent requirement of identification in spaces that I, as white woman, have been able to move fluidly through. […]

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: July 22, 2022

Sex, Youth and Power in Julia May Jonas’ Vladimir
by Megan Jones

July 18, 2022 Contributed By: Megan Jones

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas is a novel with, as is increasingly prevalent in modern literary fiction, an “unlikable female narrator.” But her unlikability stems from her refusal to sugarcoat the realities of aging and its attendant loss of power.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Culture, Fiction, Reviews Posted On: July 18, 2022

Suspended in Middle Distance: On Arda Collins’ Star Lake
by Emma Daley

June 27, 2022 Contributed By: Emma Daley

Star Lake cover

Collins’ spatial poems knit together the natural world––trees, light, stones––with her specific history of violence, loss, and survival.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: June 27, 2022

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