Jeannine Hall Gailey from The Rumpus wrote a great review about her excitement on reading Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door.
"The Yellow Door continues Uyematsu’s tradition of strikingly-crafted lyric poetry, this time combined with poems in a looser narrative style, as well as a more up-front confrontation of her experience of race as a third-generation Japanese-American poet, with her trademark humor and intellect shining through. A solid and satisfying read for fans and a great introduction to her work as well."
For the full review, click here.
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Congratulations to Amy Uyematsu for this fabulous review by Lee Rossi for The Pedestal Magazine!
"This new book contains many of the characteristic pleasures of her writing—precise diction, keen awareness of social and cultural differences, and what I can only call “local color,” but there is less recrimination and anger than in earlier work. The book exhibits a sense of accomplishment and ease, as well as an awareness that the taboos and restrictions once imposed on Japanese-Americans have lessened since she was a girl."
For the full review, click here.
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Barry Wallenstein, of the American Book Review, published a review of The Luba Poems for their May/June 2015 issue. He praises Colette Inez's wording and how they are able to draw the reader in.
"Many poets as they get older write with the gravity of ends in sight. Meditations on mortality seem just about inevitable. But now, here comes Luba, Inez’s most zesty persona whose reflections are primarily about life and sensory experience. While most are third person presentations, we nonetheless hear Luba’s voice and feel her being: quicksilver, lithe, and the epitome of rhythm, wit and erotic passion."
To read the full review, click here.
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Last month, Ruth Foley, writing for the Atticus Review, discussed how Dop is able to maintain the consistent voice in his multiple narratives. She goes on noting that the poems are "tight and focused" along with saying:
"Accessible poems risk losing the reader’s attention, but the strongest poems in Father, Son, Water allow the seemingly straightforward vocabulary and syntax to build to true insight."
Read the full review, here!
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Kayla Greenwell from Blotterature reviews How to Carry Bigfoot Home and discusses how Chris Tarry is able to prove his points with a mix of humor and satire.
"Tarry’s writing is fresh and compelling. If I was wary at first, I wasn’t for long. His stories are dark, but oddly humorous in their sarcasm or just straight up absurdity."
To read the full review, click here.
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Over the weekend, Rebecca Bornstein, writing for The Rumpus, published a review of Celeste Gainey's the GAFFER, and raved about the use of contrastig tones in the book:
“The straddling of these two tonal positions- aggressive and wounded- is done masterfully in this collection, and mirrors the two mediums the gaffer has to work with: light and dark. A good performance requires both. And the GAFFER provides us with both: a sense of danger and a sense of magic, a sense of realness and performity, the brute arc and the black shadow of its absence.”
To read the full review, click here.
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Last month, Audrey Quinn, writing for NewPages, published a review of Elissa Washuta's brilliant memoir My Body is a Book of Rules, and loved Elissa's mixture ofnormal life with larger themes.
"The end of My Body is a Book of Rules is so fantastic and, while it wouldn’t spoil anything, I have to stop myself from including the last paragraph or two here. It speaks so well to Elissa Washuta’s ability to combine ordinary circumstances with larger themes of life and the unknown. I finished the book rooting for her as if she was a friend. I only wish, selfishly, that the memoir had been a little longer."
To read the full review, click here.
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Recently, Sara Lippmann, writing for Sunday Salon, interviewed Red Hen author Chris Tarry about his new short story collection, How To Carry Bigfoot Home, his writing process, his music, and a few other subjects. Chris has great things to say as he shared his view on the place of humor in fiction:
"I think it’s this fear of not working, or coming off as too cute, or sentimental that pushes a lot of writers away from humor in literary fiction. I believe there’s room for a little sentimentality in literature, not a lot, but a little. Good God, we could all really use a good cry, no?"
To read the full interview, click here.
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Recently, Samir Atassi, writing for the River Teeth Journal, published a review of Elissa Washuta's memoir, My Body Is a Book of Rules, and had great things to say about her unique method of storytelling.
“The author gives us an artful description of what happened to her, showing us her struggles with self-doubt and self-image while trying to stitch together an identity in a crazy, over-medicated, technology-dominated postmodern world. In the end, it feels as if her story could not have been told any other way.”
To read the full review, click here.
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Recently, The Conversant published a conversation between Red Hen author Adrianne Kalfopoulou and Jane Satterfield. The two discuss everything from genre, to motherhood, to biculturalism.
To read the fascinating conversation in full, click here.
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Recently, Library Journal Express Review published a review of Jim Knipfel's new novel, Residue, and had great things to say about the book's tone and sense of humor.
"This quirky, charming novel evokes the provincial spirit and dark humor of Fargo and will be a welcome change of pace for any mystery lover."
To read the full review, click here.
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Recently, Kevin Rippin, writing for Monkeybicycle, published a review on David Mason's poetry collection, Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014, and had some great things to say:
"These poems of extraordinary loss are uniformly well-crafted. This is a poet whose world is being erased before his eyes. The revelation surfaces that we live singular lives despite all the company we keep, and we must die alone."
To read the full review, click here.
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The Spring Issue of The Georgia Review will feature a review by Jo McDougall of William Trowbridge's poetry collection, Put This On, Please. Here are some of the great things Jo had to say about the book:
"In Put This On, Please, Trowbridge instructs us in the art of the deadpan, “the secret” to outrunning our “faults and stewings.” As mortals at the mercy of capricious gods, we need this book. Sure to win Trowbridge new readers and more accolades, Put This On, Please offers the carapace of comic relief against what we know of, fear, and cannot understand."
To read the full review, click here.
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Recently, Gary Dop, writing for the Green Mountains Review, reviewed William Trowbridge's poetry collection Put This On, Please, and had high praise for the book's balance of the serious and the comedic.
"Put This On, Please is a masterwork of humor revealing humanity. It plucks the silly strings of our inner banjo and allows us to preserve what matters so that we, with Trowbridge, can get back up to smile again before we slip and fall, again."
Look for this review in a forthcoming issue of the Green Mountains Review!
Recently, Kim Winternheimer, writing for Masters Review, published a review of Chris Tarry's new story collection How To Carry Bigfoot Home, and she sang Chris' praises.
“Tarry’s work is lighthearted, examining serious issues in imaginative prose that is fun to read. He is clearly a talented and thoughtful writer, and is at his best when he tackles life’s questions and coming-of-age moments in a wheelhouse of fantastic characters and settings. I am sure we will see great things from this writer—I look forward to reading all of it.”
To read the full review, click here.
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