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Reviews

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Spring 2009


Fiction

The Man Back There and Other Stories by David Crouse
reviewed by Jeremy Ekberg
Temporary People by Steven Gillis
reviewed by BJ Hollars
Bass Cathedrals by Nathaniel Mackey
reviewed by Lewis Robert Colon, Jr.
What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
reviewed by Kevin Waltman

Nonfiction

Ordinary Genius: A Guide to the Poet Within by Kim Addonizio
reviewed by BJ Hollars
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn

reviewed by Colin Rafferty

Poetry

The Romance of Happy Workers by Anne Boyer
reviewed by Daniela Olszewska
May Day by Phillis Levin
reviewed by Jessica Fordham Kidd

Fall 2008


Fiction

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
reviewed by Carl Peterson
A Mouthful of Air by Amy Koppelman
reviewed by Alissa Nutting
The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter
reviewed by B.J. Hollars

Nonfiction

Between Panic & Desire by Dinty W. Moore
reviewed by Robin Mozer

Poetry

Grace, Fallen from by Marianne Boruch
reviewed by Monica Berlin
Interpretive Work by Elizabeth Bradfield
reviewed by Heather Duerre Humann
Our Aperture by Ander Monson
reviewed by Michael Marberry
Boy With Flowers by Ely Shipley
reviewed by Alissa Nutting

Spring 2008


Fiction

Smonk by Tom Franklin
reviewed by BJ Hollars
The Night I Freed John Brown by John Michael Cummings
reviewed by BJ Hollars

Poetry

Inflorescence by Sarah Hannah
reviewed by Elizabeth Buckalew
The Floating Bridge by David Shumate
reviewed by Jessica Fordham Kidd
Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs
reviewed by Jeremy Hawkins
The Second Blush by Molly Peacock
reviewed by Michael Marberry
Dynamite on a China Plate by Jay Leeming
reviewed by Kirk Pinho
To Frankenstein, My Father by Cody Todd
reviewed by Justin Runge