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: Winter of SummersSeries: Author: Michael FaudetGenre: Poetry, RomancePublisher: Andrew McMeels PublishingFormat: PaperbackISBN: 1449496393 In case you missed the memo, I’ll restate this for the record: I FREAKING LOVE POETRY. Pretty much every poetry collection that comes out of Andrew McMeel makes it to me, whether by way of the library, Amazon, or gifts, but despite the abundance of …
Before you dive into the hottest summer releases coming out this season, I want to revisit books I’ve read during the first half of this year that you should bump to the top of your TBR pile. While some of these books were released this spring, others came out in 2016 or 2017. They’ve made …
Since the summer quarter of college ended, I couldn’t wait to get back into reading. There’s pleasure in reading because I want to and not because a paper is due next week. From the moment I stepped into my apartment, I slid a book off the shelf. The sound of it was relief, a wanting I …
A poet is, above anything else, a person passionately in love with language. – W.H Auden Poetry, like anything else in life, is a matter of preference. There are those who love it, those who tolerate it, and those who loathe it. For those of us who love or tolerate it, poetry is one of the …
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 …
Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe — which won Stanford University’s 2016 Saroyan Prize for International Writing — as well as the memoirs The Bridge to Take When Things Gets Serious and Miss New York Has Everything. She is also the author of the poetry collection, …
