Collins’ spatial poems knit together the natural world––trees, light, stones––with her specific history of violence, loss, and survival.
Reviews
Suspended in Middle Distance: On Arda Collins’ Star Lake
We Are History: Ardor and Visibility in Robin Gow’s A Million Quiet Revolutions
by Katherine Fallon
Written in verse, A Million Quiet Revolutions queers both the novel and young adult genre by using altered form and subversive subject matter to break expected literary boundaries.
Barbara Schwartz & Krista J.H. Leahy’s Nothing but Light
by Emilee Kinney
Barbara Schwartz and Krista J.H. Leahy’s collaborative collection Nothing But Light is a spiritual journey that merges the female body with divinity.
Pinioned Wings: Love, Violence, and Spirituality in Hananah Zaheer’s Lovebirds
by Emma Daley
In her new chapbook, Lovebirds, Zaheer presents 12 vivid flash stories about relationships, faith, violence, loss, and desire.
Sellouts 1985: Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
by Brianna Di Monda
By co-opting the style and tropes of the Romantics and applying them to an ironic magical realism story, Süskind created a postmodern text liberated from the delusion of originality.
Collaborative Gender(s): A Review of Ava Hofmann’s MY MY SUMMER OF TOTAL FFAILURE
by Robin Gow
The poems leave me curious about what it means to create these distinctions and what we can learn from our edges of “self.”
Holy Dispatches: A Review of Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations by Kopano Maroga
by Robin Gow
Rightly dedicated to “Judas,” Kopano Maroga’s first collection imagines Jesus’s “lost years” as full of queer erotic bliss and newly vibrant prayers.
Our Small Faces by Jamie Moore Reviewed
by Raki Kopernik
This is a story about friendship: the way it changes as we discover sexuality and as we begin to understand the way our bodies are seen in the world in all of its forms.
One Who Was Not Devoured: A Review of Liz Kay’s The Witch Tells the Story and Makes It True
by Katherine Fallon
It is no secret we are supposed to despise the witch in the traditional fairy tale, but while brutal, this witch is not lonely, nor is she pathetic, and we question whether her violence is unwarranted.
Welcome Hauntings: A Review of Mark Wunderlich’s God of Nothingness
by Robin Gow
Mark Wunderlich’s poems conjure reluctant ghosts and waltz with rusted memories. This collection makes mourning and melancholy tangible.
