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We're stepping into Fall with some outstanding coverage of recent releases. Below you'll find reviews from Chicago Review, Poetry Foundation, Rain Taxi, and more. To view previous review highlights, click this link to check out our archives.
Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms by Ardengo Soffici, Translated by Olivia E. Sears | World Poetry Books

"But Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms holds onto something beyond an algorithmic stream of data, even as it heralds our current digital landscape. Soffici’s vibrant “amalgam” stirs the senses and revels in the chaotic, colorful effervescence that makes us human. It challenges us to reflect on our sensory entanglements with the innovations we encounter every day, and on the perils and possibilities of connecting with art, media, technology, and each other."   — Chicago Review
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Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses by Ronald Johnson | The Song Cave
"[R]eiterates the affirmation that Johnson expresses throughout his book for the largesse of life itself. To have this book finally back in print, and reminding us of such verities, is simply a splendid thing.”
   —  Rain Taxi

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Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings by Warren Lehrer (Artist) Adeena Karasick | Dialogos/Lavender Ink
"An arresting attempt to put collective pain and healing on the page… Karasick's poems and Lehrer's images of textual choreography deal with what emerging from a long, isolating quarantine feels like… forcing the eye to sweep across unpredictable, textured pages when Karasick's speakers lament their physical alienation… This collaboration keenly embodies a collective trauma that eludes a singular definition."

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Her Scant State by Barbara Tomash | Apogee Press
"As we navigate these divided pages, one has a sense of participating in the work, using all of one’s faculties to derive meaning, which is itself a form of freedom...Her Scant State details a union’s collapse under the weight of its prime mover, Money, with a reminder that hope and dissolution are part of every union’s life cycle."
   — Heavy Feather Review

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the Telaraña Circuit by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola | Tender Buttons Press
“Experience, the body, water, and language are the cardinal coordinates of this hybrid work, which excavates memory’s underlying structures.”
   — Poetry Foundation

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