The Static Herd, by Beth Steidle
The Static Herd, by Beth Steidle. New York, New York: Calamari Press. 82 pages. $12.00, paper. How do we write about death? Explain the inexplicable without sounding overwrought, cliché, false?...
View ArticleECODEVIANCE, by CAConrad
ECODEVIANCE, by CAConrad. Seattle, Washington: Wave Books. 160 pages. $22.00, paper. CAConrad’s latest book serves as a how-to guide—through (Soma)tic rituals, we see the prompt and the resulting...
View ArticleThe Luminol Reels, by Laura Ellen Joyce
The Luminol Reels, by Laura Ellen Joyce. New York, New York: Calamari Press. 100 pages. $13.00, paper. The stories in Laura Ellen Joyce’s The Luminol Reels read like a series of inverse flashbulbs....
View ArticleWild Grass on the Riverbank, by Hiromi Itō
Wild Grass on the Riverbank, by Hiromi Itō (translated by Jeffrey Angles). Notre Dame, Indiana: Action Books. 103 pages. $16.00, paper. (Be carried from your native land to foreign soil, where you...
View ArticleHalf Out Where, by Joseph Aguilar
Half Out Where, by Joseph Aguilar. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Caketrain, September 2014. 156 pages. $9.00, paper. Some books, including some of the best, must teach you how to read them as you read...
View ArticleThe Uncomfortably Ugly, the Stupidly Human, and the Beauty of the Mundane: A...
Addicts & Basements, by Robert Vaughan. Civil Coping Mechanisms, February 2014. 142 pages. $13.95, paper. Robert Vaughan’s Addicts & Basements is a slim volume of flash fiction and poetry...
View ArticleThe Holy Ghost People, by Joshua Young
The Holy Ghost People, by Joshua Young. Plays Inverse. 85 pages. $12.95, paper. Plays are like frogs. They start life in a form that scarcely seems to resemble the final product. What whirls to life...
View Article[Sic], by Davis Schneiderman
[Sic], by Davis Schneiderman. Seattle, Washington: Jaded Ibis Productions. 154 pages. $16.00, paper. Davis Schneiderman’s writing is typically propelled by a kind of palpable kinetic energy—an...
View ArticleSomeday I’m Going to Die: A Review of NEW ANIMALS by Nick Francis Potter
New Animals, by Nick Francis Potter. Denver, Colorado: Subito Press, April 2016. 250 pages. $18.00, paper. New Animals is comics. It is short stories. It is the dreams and nightmares of various horned...
View ArticleA Review of THE SARAH BOOK by Scott McClanahan
The Sarah Book, by Scott McClanahan. New York, New York: Tyrant Books, July 2017. 150 pages. $15.00, paper. An interesting thing happened in literature recently, and not for the first time. Most...
View ArticleFLOWERS & SKY, lectures and unpublished poems by Aaron Shurin, reviewed by...
Flowers & Sky: Two Talks, by Aaron Shurin. Seattle, Washington: Entre Ríos Books, October 2017. 60 pages. $12.00, paper. Every poet is unconsciously dominated by particularities. There is a moment...
View ArticleWAREWOLFF!, an archive by Gary J. Shipley, reviewed by Sean Pearce
Warewolff!, by Gary J. Shipley. Hexus Press, September 2017. 248 pages. £9.99 GBP, paper. I had to read Warewolff! in bursts. I found that sitting down with it for too long left me feeling hollowed...
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