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Tag Archives: Review
“A lesson about the stones that wait to rise in our hearts”: A Review of John Guzlowski’s Echoes of Tattered Tongues
by Eric Kroczek My first encounter with a John Guzlowski poem was as desultory as anything in life: I was eating a solitary dinner and barely listening to the news on the local public radio station one evening after work … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, John Guzlowski, Poetry
Tagged Book Review, John Guzlowski, Poetry, Review, World War II
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Jordan A. Rothacker’s The Pit, And No Other Stories
Jordan A. Rothacker’s The Pit, And No Other Stories by Melissa Ximena Golebiowski “The Pit is a journey in itself, a ride with flashes of life and an ending in a place, in a world, you didn’t quite anticipate.” Rothacker … Continue reading
A Review of Sarah Marcus’s Backcountry
A Review of Sarah Marcus’s Backcountry by Karen Skolfield In my review copy of Sarah Marcus’s chapbook from Finishing Line Press, Marcus includes a friendly, cheerful handwritten note to me which she signs “Love & Bears.” Love – a not-unusual … Continue reading
Posted in At the Margins, Review
Tagged addiction, At the Margins, backcountry, bears, finishing line press, Karen Skolfield, love, poetry review, relationships, Review, Sarah Marcus
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A Review of Len Joy’s American Past Time
A Review of Len Joy’s American Past Time by Jody Hobbs Hesler Len Joy’s debut novel, American Past Time, is part time capsule and part baseball love affair. The title itself promises this (baseball is considered an America’s pastime, and this … Continue reading
A Review of Lena Divani’s Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat
A Review of Lena Divani’s Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat Translated from the Greek by Konstantinos Matsoukas By Jennifer Dane Clements Forget, for a moment, the ubiquitous internet cats. Put aside the grumpy one, the … Continue reading
Posted in At the Margins, Review
Tagged animal narrators, anthrozoology, At the Margins, cats, Europa Editions, Fiction, Greek translation, internet cats, internet memes, Jennifer Dane Clements, Konstantinos Matsoukas, Lena Divani, Review, Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat, Translation
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A Review of Catherine Pierce’s The Girls of Peculiar
A Review of Catherine Pierce’s The Girls of Peculiar By Jennifer Dane Clements Catherine Pierce’s second poetry collection, The Girls of Peculiar, resurrects the gangly and awkward ghosts of adolescence, in turns honoring and questioning those young spectres. Indeed, it is … Continue reading
A Review of Bushra Rehman’s Corona
A Review of Bushra Rehman’s Corona By J. Andrew Goodman Bushra Rehman’s Corona is a witty and moving story of liminal spaces and the narrator Razia’s abuttal with the thresholds of sex, ethnicity, and place. The novel follows Razia from … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged arranged marriage, At the Margins, Bushra Rehman, Corona, Family, Muslim, New York City, orthodox Islam, Pakistani, Review, San Francisco, Sibling Rivalry Press
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A Review of Molly Beth Griffin’s Silhouette of a Sparrow
A Review of Molly Beth Griffin’s Silhouette of a Sparrow by Jeff Moscaritolo On your next trip to a bookstore, check out the YA section (if you weren’t already planning to), and conduct the following experiment: Find the books targeting … Continue reading
A Review of Patrick Lawler’s Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds
A Review of Patrick Lawler’s Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds by Jennifer Dane Clements Not long ago I saw a photo collection: Two brothers who took one picture every year in the same month, the same pose. They … Continue reading
A Review of Kathryn Levy’s Reports
A Review of Kathryn Levy’s Reports by Susan Hankla In her first book of published poems, Losing the Moon, Kathryn Levy devised settings for each of her speakers to inhabit, so that we saw the edginess of a rooftop, right … Continue reading
Posted in At the Margins, Poetry, Review
Tagged At the Margins, Kathryn Levy, Losing the Moon, New Rivers Press, Poems, Poetry, Reports, Review, Susan Hankla
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The As It Ought to Be Archive 