Reviews

Criticism is part of how a literary culture thinks about itself. These reviews consider recent and notable collections with the attention they deserve — not consumer ratings, but genuine engagement with what each book is attempting and whether it succeeds. We review the work we find worth arguing with, in the belief that serious attention is itself a form of respect.

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Reviews Your Mother’s Bear Gun — Corrie Williamson The language of noticing: some books resist review, and the only honest way in is to admit you cannot fully explain it. Read → Reviews Deaf Republic — Ilya Kaminsky A town that goes deaf in protest, and a book that asks what silence can do that speech cannot. Read → Reviews American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin — Terrance Hayes A sonnet sequence written in the fever of a single fall, and what Hayes does with a form under real pressure. Read → Reviews Scattered Snows to the North — Carl Phillips Restraint, desire, and the long practice of looking clearly. Read → Reviews Modern Poetry — Diane Seuss Seuss’s fifth collection — self-conscious, expansive, and entirely her own. Read → Reviews Into the Hush — Arthur Sze Ecological attention, lyric sequence, and the ethics of observation. Read → Reviews With My Back to the World — Victoria Chang Agnes Martin, silence, and the grief that doesn’t end. Read → Reviews Regaining Unconsciousness — Harryette Mullen Language play, Black vernacular tradition, and the politics of form. Read →

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