Thursday 1:17 p.m.: A Novel Author: Michael Landweber Coffeetown Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-60381-357-0 $13.95 Still Life in Thursday 1:17 p.m. “Begin the Begin” by R.E.M. is the last song teenager Duck listens to before time stops around him in the middle of an...
Graffiti Calculus by Mary-Sherman Willis CW Books/Word Tech Communications, 2013 92 pages ISBN978-1625490568 Review by Rose Solari I begin by admitting that I have particular interest in and admiration for the book-length poem or poetic sequence. It is not...
The One Before By Juan José Saer Open Letter, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-934824788 $12.95 (paperback) Reviewed by Ryan C. Corder Juan José Saer has been regarded as the “most important Argentinian writer since Borges” by The Independent. Considering Borges’s legacy,...
Reviewed in this essay: We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters, Brian Gilmore, Cherry Castle Publishing, 82 pp., ISBN 9780692273272 The Day of the Border Guards, Katherine E. Young, University of Arkansas Press, 74 pp., ISBN 9781557286550 Honest Engine, Kyle Dargan, University...
Night at the Fiestas By Kirstin Valdez Quade Norton, 2015 ISBN: 0393242986 $15.95 (Paperback) Reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova Conceptions of New Mexico by mostly white easterners in its early time as part of the United States usually involved notions of danger,...
5 Months, 10 Years, 2 Hours By Lisa Reisman Outpost19, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-937402-70-9 $16.00 (Paperback) Reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova In Lisa Reisman’s 5 Months, 10 Years, 2 Hours, time is of the essence. This trim memoir follows our narrator Lisa as she goes...
