Celeste Lipkes’ “Radium Girl” reviewed by Jane Zwart
review of Radium Girl by Celeste Lipkes. University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Diane Seuss, in her essay “Restless Herd,” addresses poets. She says, “In writing and ordering your poems, you are forging a self. Housing it in a stall of its own making. You are building a bearable myth.”* As I read (and reread) Celeste Lipkes’s debut, Radium Girl,
Jody Stewart’s ‘This Momentary World’ reviewed by Timothy Liu
Jody Stewart This Momentary World Nine Mile Books, 2022 ISBN 979-8-9871927-2-6 As a reader and owner of many Selecteds, I’ve pondered how to go about reading them. If the book is arranged chronologically from first book to most recent, what are the options besides
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds by Orlando Ricardo Menes reviewed by Andrea Read
A World Graced by Disorder: Orlando Ricardo Menes’s The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds “I will not desist in finding God, mine & yours…” From the dry puna winds of his childhood Lima to a first glorious rainfall – aguacero tropical – in Miami; from muck-and-slush puddle, river, and ocean to that “obstinate life in the ocean” of the
