"Taut, beautifully written, and suspenseful, this resonant, feminist drama eschews easy answers. A page-turner of the highest caliber."
Kirkus details the book's plot points, setting, and themes here.
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News & Review Type: Review
After the Dam review from Kirkus
Kirkus gives The Currawongs a Mighty review
“Delightful. . . . A nimble and very funny collection of stories from a writer who clearly values the human condition in all its myriad forms.”
Check out the observant review here.
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Isthmus sits down with Mark Rozema to talk about Road Trip
Isthmus reviews Mark Rozema's Road Trip and applauds his ability to turn the world around us into a living, breathing setting which allows us to simply exist.
"I found myself sitting often with these words so that they became the landscape around me—one that offers the quiet, subtle understanding of a night of stars; the profound abruptness of standing on a cliff’s edge; the painful love of witnessing a father’s decline; and always a curious spirit to know where the road leads"
This is just an excerpt, to read the full interview click here
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Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop gets reviewed Poetry Magazine
Recommended and briefly reviewed by Eduardo C. Corral in Poetry Magazine. The poems in Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop are funny, wicked, and poignant. These three qualities are visible in the titles. For example: “How to Pretend You’ve Read Moby-Dick,” “To My Love Handles,” “Elegy for Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Lite,” and “Little Girl, Little Lion.” Dop’s poetic gaze is wide-ranging and piercing. The poems about his father engage with the violence embedded in American masculinity and the character-driven poems are empathic and quirky. A highly enjoyable and memorable book.
As It Ought to Be” raves about “River Electric With Light”!”
The editor describes the book as "enigmatic, transversive, transformative," and so beautifully writes that there is "water–and the life water ensures–running through this book." Thanks for the wonderful words of praise!
Check out the full review here.
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Dean Kostos: This is Not a Skyscraper
"An interview with Dean Kostos about the power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island."
The online magazine Guernica contucted an interview with author Dean Kostos as well as provided a wonderfulful review of Kostos lastest collection, This is Not a Skyscraper.
Check out the link below:
https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/dean-kostos-this-is-not-a-skyscraper/
Fogged Clarity Reviews Dean Kostos’s Latest Collection of Poetry
The Literary journal Fogged Clarity has beautifully reviewed Dean Kostos's latest collection of poetry This Is Not a Skyscaper.
"Like New York itself, with its carefully plotted grid of streets hosting the chaos of millions of comers and goers, This is Not a Skyscraper reminds us of the rich complexities that often exist within order."
Click on the link below to read more on Foogged Claritys review!
The Yellow Door” Celebrated by Nichi Bei!”
"Journey through a post-war Japanese American landscape with Amy Uyematsu as she defines race, unpacks the family incarceration experience and discovers a confluence with Japanese culture in “The Yellow Door,” her latest book of poetry." Check out Nichi Bei's website here.
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On Birds of Paradise Lost” by Andrew Lam”
"Just as Lam connects with and penetrates each persona, so too each persona achieves a moment that bridges or leaps the gap between our two cultures, forever wedded by the tragic war."
Check out the review here
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When the World Breaks Open is a hit with Kirkus Reviews!
The first review for Seema Reza’s memoir When the World Breaks Open is live! Kirkus Review praises Reza for her “self-lacerating honesty” and that she “exercises literary license and often writes with poetic power.”
For the full review, click here!
Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules” is featured on Buzzfeed! “
Arianna Rebolini, writer for Buzzfeed, created a list of books that will help the public understand mental disorders and illnesses.
Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules is number 21 on that list! Rebolini notes that Washuta's book will help anyone understand more about bipolar disorder, disorder eating, and suicidal ideation.
Click here for the whole list!
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Blotterature Celebrates The Crawford County Sketchbook”!”
Called a "must read for all of those fans of Southern Gothic, great storylines, nostalgia, and a tinge of weirdness," this is one book you won't want to miss.
Read the full review here.
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For this month’s Southwest Book Review, Mary Sojourner spoke with author Mark Rozema about his memoir Road Trip.””
Mary Sojourner, from KNAU, interviews Mark Rozema and discusses his first memoir, Road Trip. She brings up the focus Road Trip has on grace and the gift of being in the natural world; calling it "beautiful… and would heartily reccommend it."
On Rozema's writing: "Youre very honest and open in a lot of the essays. You talk about your own hard times, and part of what becomes very clear is that being out in the natural world has been a part of what got you through those hard times. …. Your writing, it springs from the natural world. You certainly talk about people and connections with people."
For the full interview, click here.
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Brad Wethern’s Kids in the Wind” leaves an impression on Cleaver Magazine!”
Rachael Tague, of Cleaver Magazine, recently reviewed Brad Wethern's Kids in the Wind. She comments on how Wethern seems to blend the lines between imagination and reality by saying his stories "fall just one beat short of reality, but I couldn’t help but believe them, and by the end of the book, I felt like I had walked alongside the General through all of his adventures."
She ends her review with a comparison to Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and how Wethern's novel is a narrative extension of it.
To read the full review, click here.
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Kirkus Reviews loves Road Trip!
We are very proud of Mark Rozema's oustanding review by Kirkus Reviews!
A series of essays delicately evoking nature?s power and mystery.
Poet Mary Oliver provides the epigraph for essayist Rozema?s lyrical debut collection: ?Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?? Like Oliver?and reminiscent also of Annie Dillard and Gretel Ehrlich?Rozema meditates on wildness, living, and dying; on spirituality, transcendence, and epiphany; and on music, friendship, and longing. The roads he followed traverse the Arizona canyons where he grew up; Seattle, where he landed in 1994, ?somewhat lost, or somewhat free,? after his marriage ended; the Cascades in Washington; and the rugged terrain of Alaska, where he lived in his mid-20s. A self-proclaimed ?agnostic to the core,? the author recalls that in high school, as a born-again Christian, he feared missing the rapture, ?the name believers give to the extraordinary moment in which Christ would sweep his righteous followers up in the twinkling of an eye.? Searching for God, he was ?driven to seminary by a kind of thirst,? but he lasted only a year. Disillusioned by the church, Rozema found sacred spaces in nature: on jagged mountain peaks, in the ?redemptive wilderness,? on the open road. In a sacred place, the author writes, ?I feel?simultaneously?my insignificance in the universe, and my centrality in it.? Spiritual sustenance, peace, and connection often seem elusive. ?I would like to enter into the freedom that comes from losing the self,? writes the author. ?I would like to be fully present in each moment?freed of regrets about the past and worries about the future.? Besides exploring the geology of land and archaeology of self, Rozema chronicles his father?s loss of memory from Alzheimer?s, which left the former math professor and choirmaster disoriented and bewildered. As he lay dying, the author sat by his bedside singing hymns and recounting family stories, witnessing the mysterious moment of death, when ?time and space vanish.?
A brief but impressive debut collection.