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“These are Whitmanesque lines. Like Whitman, Silano claims us all as big, glorious, and as powerful as physics. The hope Silano offers does not negate the outrage and horror that the book takes us to. But, neither does it leave us there.”

Read the full review by Deborah Bacharach at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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“…I would have to live / my earthbound life and love and suffer / my own series of crystalline moments.”

Read the full review by Kali Lightfoot at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s voice—queer and Southern—is rich and encompasses violence, tenderness, fury, as well as satire. With hilarious irony, when describing lesbian sex in “To Pence,” she boasts, “It works just as you imagine, / involves as much buffoonery.”

Read the full review by Risa Denenberg at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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The Novel Coronavirus has birthed several anthologies in which writers grapple with quotidian, profound, sorrowful, and even peaceful moments in their upturned lives.  Poetry has always sought to help us reflect more deeply or find a new way to understand the moments we live through, and this book is, as the editors put it, “is a breathing documentary.”

Read the full review of Voices Amidst the Virus at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Dilruba Ahmed’s second book of poems, Bring Now the Angels, offers an uncanny witness to our pandemic-ridden moment where so many are dying in a solitude defined by PPE and plexiglass.

Read the full review of Bring Now the Angels at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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“...words of cities and countrysides, deserts and glaciers, natures and humans.”

Read the full review of New Poets of Native Nations at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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“In ‘When Was My Anger Conceived?’ Ferraro’s candidacy creates a frame for the speaker’s anger about women’s place in politics, then and now....

Read the full review of Jennifer Martelli’s In the Year of Ferraro at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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“…the iconography of afterward in a world fertile with unease.” (“Dragonflies”) Elegies that manages to be elegiac without being mournful.

Read the full review of Gabriel Welsch’s The Death of Flying Things at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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“...every death that touches us cracks open all the questions, large and minute, of life’s meaning while it sets the mourner apart from ordinary time. “

Read the full review of Mary Jo Bang’s Elegy at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Odio’s uses of the body throughout Territory of Dawn constantly reestablishes tensions that seem inherent in intimacy itself. 

Read the full review of Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio’s Territory of Dawn at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Horror movies? Making a burnt-out dominatrix your muse? Walt offers these options—a complex mix of hope, violence, and endurance.

Read the full review of Leave Smoke at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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...to be immersed in this book is to feel occasionally almost breathless with the intensity of the collaborative work in this collection of epistolary and persona poems.

Read the full review of We Are Meant to Carry Water at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Corrie Williamson’s poems are “singing into silence, trembling in the bones.”

Read the full review of The River Where You Forgot My Name at Broadsides to Books.

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About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Johnson invites the reader to look more closely at the elements of our lives which we may have traditionally associated with comfort, and consider how they may be implicated in our impending social and climate disaster.

Read the full review at Broadsides to Books.

- About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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Native Voices makes vivid what is buried and erased, gathering stories, languages, places—really a whole cross-section of our nation’s history.

Read the full review at Broadsides to Books.

- About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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“I couldn’t shake the idea that mastodons and Lewis and Clark and my relationship with my dad were all related, somehow, and that damage was one way they were related,” writes Christina Olson

Read the full review at Broadsides to Books.

- About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.

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The silence surrounding trauma lies at the heart of Rain Scald, the shattering first collection by poet Tacey M. Atsitty.

Read the full review at Broadsides to Books.

- About Broadsides to Books: To honor and celebrate the writers we’ve published, we began Broadsides to Books in the spring of 2018. Here, we feature brief mini-reviews of books by broadsided authors followed by a few questions about how broadside and book connect.