Book Reviews by Title - Y (21)
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Gabriel Houck
- Publisher Orison Books
- Date Published July 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0-9964397-8-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 174pp
- Price $18.00
- Review by DM O'Connor
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Amy Munson
- Publisher Tupelo Press
- Date Published October 2016
- ISBN-13 978-1-936797-88-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 70pp
- Price $16.95
- Review by Daniel Klawitter
You are most likely going to want a dictionary on hand to fully appreciate this deeply layered book of poems. I know: this may already be a nonstarter for some readers. But persevere and the rewards are plentiful. The best kind of gift is the one that keeps on giving, and that’s what this book does. You won’t need a dictionary for the whole experience, but Amy Munson is a poet with a wise and wide vocabulary.
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Paula Whyman
- Publisher TriQuarterly Books
- Date Published May 2016
- ISBN-13 978-0-8101-3353-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216pp
- Price $17.95
- Review by Kelly Sauvage Angel
Whether we view our lifetimes as a series of clearly delineated chapters, isolated incidents, developmental stages or something akin to a tangled ball of fraying yarn, the journey from our youth to the ripe weariness of middle age somehow seems to leave us mystified when we come to consider how we got from a place of such innocence and naivete to, well, here, in this room where we lie, wracked with disappointment, betrayal, disillusionment and an all-too-hefty dose of loneliness. We tend to remember the important scenes in which we were featured within the great cosmic film of life, but the connections elude us, as though the imprints from our experiences are processed only after the screen fades to black.
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Ben Doller, Sandra Doller
- Publisher Sidebrow Books
- Date Published January 2016
- ISBN-13 978-1-940090-04-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 193pp
- Price $18.00
- Review by MacKenzie Hamilton
Ben and Sandra Doller dive straight into a foreboding and brutally honest real-life account of their cohabitation with their newest roommate, cancer. The Yesterday Project was co-written by the Dollers in the wake of a life-threatening diagnosis: melanoma cancer, stage 3. The project lasts a total of 32 days with each writer taking a moment each day to go back and recollect the previous day’s experiences.
- Subtitle A Novella and Stories
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Maceo Montoya
- Publisher University of New Mexico Press
- Date Published September 2015
- ISBN-13 978-0-8263-4199-0
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200pp
- Price $19.95
- Review by David Morgan O'Connor
Maceo Montoya’s You Must Fight Them, a debut collection which begins with the namesake—a ninety-nine-page novella, in which Chicano stereotypes are deciphered, defined, mocked, challenged and rendered in heart-shattering detail—is poignant and entertaining. Montoya’s narrators are mostly bookish and well-educated. They are searching for identity and often do not find what they are expecting. The doctorate student is supposed to be tough and fight the brothers of a girl he worshipped in high school. Why tough? Why fight? Because that is how it is and always will be. Lupita, the girl, wants out of this macho-viciousness, but can’t figure out how. Nothing is cut and dry. Montoya deals with smudged borders and crooked lines.
- Subtitle Autobiographical Essays
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Allison Gruber
- Publisher George Braziller
- Date Published February 2015
- ISBN-13 978-0-8076-0005-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160pp
- Price $15.95
- Review by Scott Russell Morris
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Becky Adnot-Haynes
- Publisher University of North Texas Press
- Date Published November 2014
- ISBN-13 9781574415650
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192pp
- Price $14.95
- Review by Girija Sankar
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Ian Williams
- Publisher Wolsak & Wynn
- Date Published April 2010
- ISBN-13 978-1-894987-41-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 79pp
- Price $17.00
- Review by Sima Rabinowitz
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Publisher Graywolf Press
- Date Published September 2012
- ISBN-13 978-1-55597-622-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 120pp
- Price $15.00
- Review by H. V. Cramond
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Brian Russell
- Publisher Graywolf Press
- Date Published July 2013
- ISBN-13 978-1-55597-648-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88pp
- Price $15.00
- Review by Kelly M. Sylvester