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The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Book Review by Tom Andes

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, by Tamara Winfrey Harris. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2015. $16, 147 pages.

In The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, …

Inked

Book Review by Colleen Abel

Inked, by Corinna McClanahan Schroeder. Texas Review Press, 2015. $9, 55 pages.

The bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, is a literary category that contains some of the most well-loved books in all of literature: To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane …

Nicotine

Book Review by Tomoé Hill

Nicotine, by Gregor Hens. Translation from German by Jen Calleja. Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015. $12, 168 pages.

There is no acceptable vice that generates instantaneous revulsion as smoking does now. The division between smokers and non-smokers is like day and …

Have at You Now!

Book Review by Karen Maceira

Have at You Now!, by John Gery. WordTech Communications, 2014. $18, 96 pages.

The poet John Gery is deeply concerned with the propensity of those in power to perpetrate mass violence. Expressed most directly in his 1996 book Nuclear Annihilation …

Anatomize

Book Review by Phillip Barron

Anatomize, by Natasha Dennerstein. Norfolk Press, 2015. $15, 73 pages.

“Nothing is beautiful, only people are beautiful,” Friedrich Nietzsche observed in Twilight of the Idols. The German philosopher believed that beauty in nature was derived from the beauty we …

dear girl: a reckoning

Book Review by Dante Di Stefano

dear girl: a reckoning, by Drea Brown. Gold Line Press, 2015. $10, 48 pages.

Whose silken fetters all the senses bind

—Phillis Wheatley (from “On Imagination”)

Drea Brown’s chapbook, dear girl: a reckoning, renders a vivid, wracked, and delirious …

Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden

Book Review by Jeff Alford

Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, by Michael Joyce. Starcherone Books, March 2015. $16, 184 pages.

 

Michael Joyce’s new epistolary novel, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, creates an alternate history of the philosopher by compiling fictional …

The Rusted City

Book Review by Allison Pitinii Davis

The Rusted City, by Rochelle Hurt. White Pines Press, 2014. $16, 108 pages.

At a recent Belt Mag reading in Youngstown, Ohio, Rochelle Hurt read poems from The Rusted City to an audience of citizens living the book. …

Mark Forsyth’s Ternion Set: The Etymologicon, The Horologicon, and The Elements of Eloquence

Book Review by Romey Bensen

Mark Forsyth’s Ternion Set: The Etymologicon, The Horologicon,  and The Elements of Eloquence. Icon Books Ltd, 2014. 768 pages.

Chances are, you’ve felt at a loss for words.

There’s a word for that.

The French call …

Midland

Book Review by Christien Garcia

 Midland, by Honor Gavin. Penned in the Margins, 2014. $15, 320 pages.

Recently short listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Midland is ostensibly a novel about the English midlands, and in particular, the post-war urban history of Birmingham. The …

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