Book Reviews by Title - A (84)
- Subtitle Poems of Resistance and Resilience
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- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by Sixteen Rivers Press
- Publisher Sixteen Rivers Press
- Date Published September 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-939639-16-5
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224pp
- Price $20.00
- Review by Valerie Wieland
I love anthologies. Where else can you read so many diverse, creative ideas linked to a theme and compiled in one electrifying place? In the introduction to the anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, Murray Silverstein asks, “With our common culture so fractured, what did poetry have to say?” The answers here are emotional and right on target.
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Jeremy T. Wilson
- Publisher Tortoise Books
- Date Published October 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-948954-01-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 244pp
- Price $15.99
- Review by Cody Lee
Domesticity at its finest, or worse. Whatever it is, Jeremy T. Wilson makes sure that the reader has a nice, comfortable spot on the couch of these unhappy homes before bulldozing them. Adult Teeth is a book for any adult who has ever considered cheating on his or her spouse, a what-not-to-do guide for divorcees and potheads that wonder what being an alligator might feel like.
- Subtitle A Graphic Novel
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- Book Type Graphic Novel
- by Ilan Stavans, Santiago Cohen
- Publisher Ohio State University / Mad Creek Books
- Date Published January 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0-8142-5459-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128pp
- Price $17.95
- Review by Cody Lee
Reading graphic novels sort of makes me feel like I’m ten years old, but when they include issues like poverty, molestation, and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, I realize that a ten-year-old me wouldn’t know what to think. I still don’t, for that matter. Angelitos by Ilan Stavans and Santiago Cohen throws you straight into the lion’s den of Mexico, where homeless children run amok, and the only one that seems to care is a Catholic priest by the name of Father Chinchachoma.
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Nicole Cuffy
- Publisher Black Lawrence Press
- Date Published March 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-62557-875-4
- Format Chapbook
- Pages 17pp
- Price $8.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
If you happen to notice the number of pages in this book before reading the review, don’t think you’ve seen a typo. Nicole Cuffy’s Atlas of the Body is indeed 17 pages long, and she fills out those pages with small scenes that open a larger story.
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Barrie Jean Borich
- Publisher The Ohio State University Press
- Date Published January 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0-8142-5462-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112pp
- Price $18.95
- Review by Evgeniya Monico
Unfamiliar with Barrie Jean Borich’s previous works, I decided to forgo my usual research concerning the author’s expertise and dive into reading Apocalypse, Darling right away. Peeking inside just to get a taste of her writing, I suddenly found myself unable to stop reading despite my previous plans for the evening. Just like the author, “I almost forget we have some place to be,” so I cancelled my plans to explore Borich’s world of “the beautiful wastelands.”
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Bunkong Tuon
- Publisher NYQ Books
- Date Published October 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-63045-052-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 100pp
- Price $15.95
- Review by DM O'Connor
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Phillip Sterling
- Publisher Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
- Date Published May 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-59948-627-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $14.00
- Review by Natalie Tomlin
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Jacob M. Appel
- Publisher West Virginia University Press
- Date Published February 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-946684-04-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 180pp
- Price $18.99
- Review by MacKenzie Hamilton
The Amazing Mr. Morality is a collection that dives head first into the shallow end of a pool full of ethical dilemmas. Jacob M. Appel creates wild worlds just inches beyond reality, but still close enough to the real deal that you can absolutely imagine them coming true. The writing is sharp, the characters are witty, and the stories are original.
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Donte Collins
- Publisher Button Poetry
- Date Published July 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1943735112
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72pp
- Price $16.00
- Review by DM O'Connor
i am alive by luck at this point, I wonder
often: if the gun that will unmake me
is yet made, what white birth
will bury me, how many bullets, like a
flock of blue jays, will come carry my black
to its final bed, which photo will be used
“What The Dead Know By Heart”
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Patricia Horvath
- Publisher Etruscan Press
- Date Published July 2017
- ISBN-13 978-0-9903221-9-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 188pp
- Price $16.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
Imagine being a 13-year-old in the hands of a “large, stubble-faced man who was smoking a cigar. [ . . . ] a man who would spread his tobacco-stained fingers on my torso, breathe his sour breath into my face.” Sounds like a child about to undergo a nasty ordeal. Though it’s not what you may be thinking, Patricia Horvath did, in fact, experience this ordeal after being diagnosed with scoliosis, “a double, S-shaped curvature of the spine.”