Joanna Acevedo analyzes the grammar of hope in five recently released poetry collections by Asian American writers. #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY “Where are you from? No, but where are you really from?” is a question that many people of colour are familiar with living in the United States, and it’s the pivotal question behind Monica Youn’s collection of poetry, From From, which came out in March 2023 from Graywolf Press. In this essay, I put it into conversation
In this experimental review, Jérôme Melançon fucks around with poetry, which is possibly the only suitable response to Kirby’s debut hybrid-genre memoir Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021). ISBN: 978-1-98928-786-6 | 250 pp | $19.95 CAD | BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY everything being a matter of gravity and lift everything — being — matter Kirby you look at me now through dozens of googly eyes — funny how we cover ourselves like that, with the images
Joelle Kidd articulates all that’s left unsaid and ineffable in Meghan Greeley‘s debut novel Jawbone (Radiant Press, 2023). ISBN: 978-1-99892-600-8 | 102 pp | $20 CAD — BUY Here #CAROUSELreviews#USEREVIEWEDNESDAY “It’s amazing how much living you can do without opening your mouth at all,” says the narrator of Meghan Greeley’s debut novel, Jawbone. The narrator, referred to as Velvet, has had her jaw wired shut. Recently, the wires were snipped. But, she finds, she still