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Recent Book Reviews
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2024 Reviews
- Two Books by Cecilia Vicuña via Exacting Clam
- Dreams the Stones Have by David Chorlton via North of Oxford
- Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyseoon via International Examiner
- What Comes from the Night by John Taylor via North of Oxford
- Cascadia Zen, Volume I via Raven Chronicles Press
- Communiqués by Maria Galina via North of Oxford
- Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return by CAConrad via Rain Taxi (Print)
- Of the Earth and Other Desires: A Poet’s Phenology by Megan Muthupandiyan via North of Oxford
- All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran via International Examiner (Print)
- Bridges by Alicia Genovese via North of Oxford
- What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M. via North of Oxford
- Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young via International Examiner (Print and Online)
- The Ridge by Robert Bringhurst via Rain Taxi (Print)
- The Heavy Lifting Companion by Felicia Rice and Theresa Whitehill via North of Oxford
- Fugue and Strike by Joe Hall via Rain Taxi (Online)
- Proposals for the Berggruen Institute by Peter Liversidge via North of Oxford
- Powèt Nan Pò A by Indran Amirthanayagam via North of Oxford
- Uncollected Later Poems (1968-1979) by Ernst Meister via North of Oxford
2023 Reviews
- Bridge of Knots by Ce Shue via International Examiner (Print, 12-6-23 to 1-2-23)
- Phantom Captain by Kim Rosenfield via North of Oxford
- Terminal Goals by Mark Anderson and CRISIS MODE by Tim Greenup via North of Oxford
- Motion Flesh by Eric M. Acosta via North of Oxford
- La Libellula / The Dragonfly by Amelia Rosselli, translated by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard via Rain Taxi (Print, September 2023)
- Saint Ghetto of the Loans: Grimoire by Gabriel Pomerand via North of Oxford
- Woman Pissing by Elizabeth Cooperman via North of Oxford
- Come Closer by Laurie Blauner via Exacting Clam
- The Atom by Sarah Mangold via periodicities
- It’s About Time by Barry Wallenstein via North of Oxford
- The Cut Point by Rodrigo Toscano via North of Oxford
- Body Facts by Joey S. Kim via International Examiner
- The Air in the Air Behind It by Brandon Rushton via North of Oxford
- The Beloved of the Dawn by Franz Fuhmann via Rain Taxi
- And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing by Tilsa Otta via Hopscotch Translation
- Lilith Walks by Susan Shultz via North of Oxford
- Refugee by Pamela Uschuk via North of Oxford
- Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang via International Examiner
- Commonplace by Hugo García Manríquez via SPREAD (Print, January 2023)
2022 Reviews
- A Summoning by Nicole McCarthy via North of Oxford
- Defying Extinction by Amy Barone via Rain Taxi (Print, Winter 2022)
- The Vanguards of Holography by Annie Christain via North of Oxford
- Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling by Riad Saleh Hussein via North of Oxford
- Aerial Concave Without Cloud by Sueyeun Juliette Lee via North of Oxford
- Drive by Elaine Sexton via Rain Taxi (Print, Fall 2022)
- Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang via International Examiner (Print, Vol. 49, No. 18)
- The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero via North of Oxford
- Water: A Visual and Scientific History by Jack Challoner via North of Oxford
- Bamboophobia by Ko Ko Thett via Rain Taxi (Print, Summer 2022)
- Elephants in Our Yard by Meral Kureyshi via Rain Taxi (Print, Summer 2022)
- instrument for distributed empathy monetization by William Lessard via Rain Taxi (Print, Summer 2022)
- Dear Ted by Kim Vodicka via North of Oxford
- Above the Bejeweled City by Jon Davis via Rain Taxi (print, Spring 2022)
- A Poetics of the Press edited by Kyle Schlesinger via North of Oxford
- Casino Lounge Gospel by Nicole Sarrocco via SPREAD
- Boat People by Mayra Santos-Febres via Exacting Clam
- Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi via North of Oxford
- Punks by John Keene via North of Oxford
- The World’s Lightest Motorcycle by Yi Won, Translated from Korean by E. J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello via North of Oxford
- Contra natura by Rodolfo Hinostroza via North of Oxford
- A Feeling Called Heaven by Joey Yearous-Algozin via North of Oxford
2021 Reviews
- Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line by Vi Khi Nao via Rain Taxi (print, Winter 2021)
- Tide Tables and Tea with God by Cassondra Windwalker via Rain Taxi (print, Winter 2021)
- Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners by Sarah Mangold via North of Oxfrod
- the deering hour by Karen Elizabeth Bishop via North of Oxford
- And So Wax was Made & Also Honey by Amy Beeder via North of Oxford
- All the Rage by Rosamond S. King via North of Oxford
- CURB by Divya Victor via Rain Taxi
- Is This Scary? by Jacob Scheier via Rain Taxi (print, Fall 2021)
- On Earth Beneath Sky by Chath pierSath via Poetry Northwest
- Saturn Peach by Lily Wang via Rain Taxi
- Carnation and Tenebrae Candle by Marosa di Giorgio via North of Oxford
- OYO by Mark B. Hamilton via Rain Taxi (print, Summer 2021)
- Consecration of the Wolves by Salgado Maranhão via North of Oxford
- American Quasar by David Campos and Maceo Montoya and A Camera Obscura by Carl Marcum via North of Oxford
- Nothing but the Music by Thulani Davis via North of Oxford
- Everything You Hold Dear by Jamie Sharpe via North of Oxford
- Breathing Technique by Marija Knežević via Rain Taxi (print, Spring 2021)
- Pixel Flesh by Agustín Fernández Mallo via Rain Taxi (print, Spring 2021)
- Requisite by Tanya Holtland via North of Oxford
- I walk around gathering up my garden for the night by Marie Lundquist via Rain Taxi
- A Better Place is Hard to Find by Aaron Fagan and Rough Song by Blanca Varela, translated by Carlos Lara via North of Oxford
Older Reviews
2020 Reviews
- A Grave is Given Supper by Mike Soto via Rain Taxi (print, Winter 2020)
- Hysteria by Kim Yideum via North of Oxford
- Ensō by Shin Yu Pai via Poetry Northwest
- Riven by Catherine Owen via North of Oxford
- Alisoun Sings by Caroline Bergvall via Rain Taxi
- All the Useless Things are Mine by Thomas Walton and Douglas Miller via North of Oxford
- The Elvis Machine by Kim Vodicka via North of Oxford
- Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile by Joseph Jarman via Rain Taxi (print, Summer 2020)
- Paper Bells by Phan Nhiên Hạo via North of Oxford
- Salem by Catherine Corman via North of Oxford
- Earth by Hannah Brooks-Motl via Rain Taxi (print, Spring 2020)
- Codex by Joshua Lew McDermott via Rain Taxi (print, Spring 2020)
- Things That Go by Laura Eve Engel via Rain Taxi
- Someone’s Utopia by Joe Hall via North of Oxford
- On an Acre Shy of Eternity: Micro Landscapes at the Edge by Robert Dash via North of Oxford
2019 Reviews
- A SLOW BOILING BEACH by Rauan Klassnik via North of Oxford
- Two anthologies from Singapore’s Math Paper Press via Yellow Rabbits
- Siblings: Four Recent Poetry Titles from Singapore’s Math Paper Press via Rain Taxi
- Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets via Yellow Rabbits
- No Finis by Deborah Woodard via Yellow Rabbits
- Huge Cloudy by Bill Carty via Yellow Rabbits
- Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity by Benjamin Schmitt via Yellow Rabbits
- What I Knew by Eleni Sikelianos via Yellow Rabbits
- Widowland by Pamela Manché Pearce via Midwest Book Review and Yellow Rabbits
- First Mountain by Zhang Er via Yellow Rabbits
- A Drink of Red Mirror by Kim Hyesoon via Yellow Rabbits
- Sugar Factory by Emily Wallis Hughes via Yellow Rabbits
- CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing via Rain Taxi
- Midden by Julia Bouwsma via Yellow Rabbits
- American Prophets by Paul Nelson via Yellow Rabbits
2018 Reviews
- Psychic Privates by Kim Vodicka via Rain Taxi (print, Winter 2018)
- The Sexiest Man Alive by Amber Nelson via Rain Taxi (print, Winter 2018)
- The Little Book of Passage by Franca Mancinelli via Yellow Rabbits
- Kill Class by Nomi Stone via Yellow Rabbits
- Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath via Yellow Rabbits
- XoeteoX by Edwin Torres via Yellow Rabbits
- The Desert by Brandon Shimoda via Yellow Rabbits
- Levon Helm by Jason Morris via Yellow Rabbits
- Letters So That Happiness by Araldo Calveyra, Translated by Elizabeth Zuba via Yellow Rabbits
- Smudgy and Lossy by John Myers via Rain Taxi (Print Edition)
- Rules for Walking Out by Crysta Casey via Yellow Rabbits
- Something for Everybody by Anselm Berrigan via Yellow Rabbits
- Orlando by Sandra Simonds, YEAH NO by Jane Gregory, and Lecture Notes by Deborah Meadows (triple review) via Rain Taxi
- Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems by Jennifer S. Cheng via Yellow Rabbits
- The Last Mosaic by Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton via Yellow Rabbits
- Defense of the Idol by Omar Cáceres, Translated by Mónica de la Torre via Yellow Rabbits
- Take Out Delivery by Paul Siegell via Yellow Rabbits
- A Box of Crazy Toys by Peter Dellolio via Yellow Rabbits
- Echo in Four Beats by Rita Banerjee via Yellow Rabbits
- Moss & Silver by Jure Detele via Yellow Rabbits
- Nioque of Early-Spring by Francis Ponge via Yellow Rabbits
- Commodore by Jacqueline Waters via Rain Taxi
- While Standing in Line for Death by CAConrad via Yellow Rabbits
- Scar by Sara Mesa (translated by Adriana Nodal-Tarafa) via Rain Taxi (print, Spring 2018)
- Royals by Cedar Sigo via Yellow Rabbits
- Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa via Yellow Rabbits
- Soledad Marambio’s Chintungo and Marília Garcia’s The Territory Is Not the Map via Yellow Rabbits
- To Each Unfolding Leaf: Selected Poems (1976-2015) by Pierre Voélin via Rain Taxi
- On Olio by Tyehimba Jess via Yellow Rabbits
2017 Reviews
- Insolvency, Insolvency! by Jeremy Hoevenaar via Yellow Rabbits
- Boys Quarter by Chukwuma Ndulue via Yellow Rabbits
- Catcall by Holly Melgard via Yellow Rabbits
- My Ida by Simone Kearney via Yellow Rabbits
- Dazzle Ships by Jamie Sharpe via Rain Taxi (print, Winter 2017)
- Unmark by Montreux Rotholtz via Yellow Rabbits
- Safe Word by Donald Dunbar via Yellow Rabbits
- A Skeleton Plays Violin by Georg Trakl via Yellow Rabbits
- All the Spectral Fractures by Mary A. Hood via Yellow Rabbits
- Earth Tickets by Jerry Martien via Yellow Rabbits
- Mannish Tongues by jayy dodd via Yellow Rabbits
- Ghosts Still Walking by Do Nguyen Mai via Yellow Rabbits
- Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin via Yellow Rabbits
- Tumult by Hans Magnus Enzensberger via Yellow Rabbits
- Sans by G.L. Ford via Yellow Rabbits
- Nihil by Alfredo de Palchi via Yellow Rabbits
- Actualities by Norma Cole and Marina Adams via Yellow Rabbits
- How to Keep Full in February by Michelle Gottschlich via Yellow Rabbits
- after projects the resound by Kimberly Alidio via Rain Taxi (print)
- Sonoma by Lehua M. Taitano via Yellow Rabbits
- Ursa Major by Yves Bonnefoy via Yellow Rabbits
- ASTRAL PROJECTION by Kyle Flemmer via Yellow Rabbits
- Lowly by Alan Felsenthal via Yellow Rabbits
- From: Sunny girls by Sandra Moussempès via Yellow Rabbits
- Same Diff by Donato Mancini via Yellow Rabbits
- Invisible Wife by Sarah Fox via Yellow Rabbits
- Handholding: 5 Kinds by Tracie Morris via Rain Taxi
- House A by Jennifer S. Cheng via PageBoy (print)
- Duration Knows No Law by Steven Seidenberg via Yellows Rabbits
- Things That Happen and Other Poems by Bhaskar Chakrabarti via Queen Mob’s
- The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays by Deborah Meadows via Yellow Rabbits
- Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi via Queen Mob’s
- Invocation by Jennifer S. Cheng via Yellow Rabbits
- Run the Red Lights by Ed Skoog via Yellow Rabbits
- Two from Talonbooks (Anahita Jamali Rad: For Love and Autonomy, and Danielle LaFrance: Friendly + Fire) via Queen Mob’s
2016 Reviews
- Encyclopédie of the Common and Encompassing by Allison Campbell, with Illustrations by Alf Dahlman (Kore Press, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- The Service Porch by Fred Moten (Letter Machine Editions, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Like Bits of Wind by Pierre Chappuis (Seagull Books, 2016) via Yellow Rabbits
- Tender in the Age of Fury by Brandon Pitts (Mosaic Press, 2016) via Via Yellow Rabbits
- Cities at Dawn by Geoffrey Nutter (Wave Books, 2016) via Yellow Rabbits
- Wonderland by Samuel Ligon with illustrations by Stephen Knezovich (Lost Horse Press, 2016) via Berfrois
- in field latin by Lutz Seiler (Seagull Books, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Pomegranate Eater by Amaranth Borsuk (Kore Press, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People by Henrik Hoeg (Proverse Hong Kong, 2016) via Yellow Rabbits
- Stone Bride Madrigals by Nicolette Wong (Corrupt Press, 2013) via Yellow Rabbits
- Memory Cards: The Thomas Traherne Series by Susan M. Schultz (Talisman House, 2016) via Rain Taxi Print Edition
- Of Beings Alone by Lissa Wolsak (Tinfish Press, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Four Books by Sarah Mangold via Queen Mob’s
- The Wine-Dark Sea by Mathias Svalina (Sidebrow Books, 2016) via Berfrois
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Lost Wax: Translation through the Void by Jonathan Stalling (Tinfish, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
- Latest Volcano by Tana Jean Welch (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016) via Rain Taxi
- Sebastian Dreaming by Georg Trakl (Seagull Books, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Hardly War by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books, 2016) via Berfrois
- A Winged Horse in a Plane by Salah Faik (Tinfish Press, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
- Layers of Fear (Aspyr, 2016), written with Scherezade Siobhan via Queen Mob’s
- The Collected Poems of Michael Gizzi (The Figures, 2015) via Rain Taxi Print Edition
- Staying Alive by Laura Sims (Ugly Duckling, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Static & Snow by Brian Henry (Black Ocean, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
- Your lapidarium feels wrought by Jennifer Stella (Ugly Duckling, 2016) via Queen Mob’s
- Undertow Overtures by Larry Crist (ATOM Press, 2014) via Queen Mob’s
- Poems by Georg Trakl (Seagull Books, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
- Arcana: Tarot Poetry Anthology (Minor Arcana Press, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
- The Inventors and Other Poems by Rene Char (Seagull Books, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
- American Sentences by Paul Nelson (Apprentice House Press, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
2015 Reviews
- Of Entirety Say the Sentence by Ernst Meister via Queen Mob’s
- Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners (WAVE Books, 2015) via Queen Mob’s
Event Reviews
2017 Reviews
- Seattle Art Fair via Queen Mob’s
- Seattle’s Upstream Music Festival via Queen Mob’s
2011
- Seattle’s Bumbershoot Music Festival via Pop Matters: 1, 2, 3
- Seattle Float via Queen Mob’s