Title: SwallowtailAuthor: Brenna TwohyGenre: PoetryPublisher: Button Poetry Format: Netgalley e-ARCISBN: 9781943735631Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Summary: Swallowtail: A deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors of it can be mirrors into the daily lived experiences of women in America. Once upon a time, whilst perusing Netgalley, a starving reader came across …
Title: Rain and Embers Author: Ali Nuri Genres: Poetry, #Ownsvoices Publisher: Lion’s Den Format: e-Book ISBN: 9780578559001 Summary: An urgent and necessary study in dualities, Ali Nuri offers a migrant’s perspective on what it means to be torn between East and West, sun and moon, the past and the present. Following the story of a …
Title: Ozone JournalAuthor: Peter BalakianGenres: Poetry, #Ownvoices Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardcoverISBN: 9780226207032 Summary: The title poem of Peter Balakian’s Ozone Journal is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the speaker’s memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists …
