A review of Melanie Benson Taylor’s “The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature.”
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“Lady Smith”: No Prince Charmings Here
A review of Jess Smith’s poetry collection, “Lady Smith.”
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Liminal Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Alina Stefanescu’s “My Heresies”
Alina Stefanescu’s new collection of poetry, “My Heresies,” is an entirely new feminist text in its own right. Observant, angry, and questioning, Stefanescu’s poems guide readers through the liminal spaces where the sacred and the profane collide.
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The Art of Fulfilling Insatiable Appetites: Lucy Rose’s “The Lamb”
Originally written as a series of interconnected flash fiction pieces, Lucy Rose’s “The Lamb” is a folk horror novel at its sinister heart.
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New Play Pays Tribute to Marie Laveau
A review of Carolyn Nur Wistrand’s play, “She Danced with a Redfish.”
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Atlanta is Haven for Queer Black Culture and “Baptism by Fire” in “Fantasies of Future Things”
The codes of masculinity, gay or straight, play an important role in “Fantasies,” which draws upon moments of historical change to reveal the precarious position of the Black gay male at the turn of the century.
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Memoir “Rehearsals for Dying” Examines Ripple Effects of Cancer
A review of Ariel Gore’s memoir, “Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer.”
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“When The Horses”: A Study in the Nomenclature of Normalcy
In the spirit of Jane Kenyon, Mary Helen Callier’s poems inhabit spaces of tension. The body, landscape, and time all become sites of reckoning.
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“No Small Thing” Weaves the Many into the One
A review of Gabriel Fried’s poetry collection, “No Small Thing.”
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New Ecopoetry Pleads for Our Broken yet Enduring Planet
A review of “Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology,” edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street.
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