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The Dirty Text by Soleida Rios, Barbara Jamison (Translator), & Olivia Lott (Translator) | Kenning Editions, 2018
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"I prefer to say that Ríos develops the dream as a genre to itself — a real fiction, a fictional real."
-William Repass
Full Stop | January 13, 2020
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The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories by Raymond Roussel, Mark Ford (Translator) | The Song Cave, 2019
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"It is here that we are able to glimpse Roussel’s true mastery in his confidence over these self-imposed constraints, his ability to take the most ridiculous boundaries and create a story that still succeeds on its own terms of believability. The mind becomes remarkably nimble when given a few confines to work with, and Roussel, ever mathematical in his writing, dissembles into parentheticals as his problems grow in size."
-Nolan Kelly
Hyperallergic | Feburary 8, 2020
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Creature by Amina Cain | Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013
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" In thinking about what makes your writing unique, the best starting point I’ve come up with is that you have not just a voice, but a sound. I suspect that what I experience as your sound has as much to do with your attitude toward literature as with the particular words you choose to use,"
-Martin Riker
The Paris Review| Feburary 11, 2020
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The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter by Rosmarie Waldrop | Dorothy, a publishing project, 2019
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"The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter is a very physical book – people are sleeping with each other. There is much talk of penises; both Lucy’s and her mother’s lovers are described as fat, repeatedly; her mother, Frederika, eats a lot and quickly; Frederika climbs out of a car sans panties; the other sister, Doria, is always pregnant; and the father, ever-cerebral Josef, tap-taps his barometer (hello, Proust) and sits strangely erect on his bicycle."
-Kelly Krumrie
Full Stop | Feburary 11, 2020
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Pretend We Live Here by Genevieve Hudson | Future Tense Books, 2018
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"In between is where Genevieve’s stories live: characters in-between identities, settings in between Alabama and Amsterdam, a tone in between hilarious and heartbreaking. Her writing lives in a fluid space between a funny anecdote someone told you about their rural childhood and your third eye’s fever dream."
-Kait Heacock
PANK | Feburary 25, 2020
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Collected Poems: 1946-2016 by Harry Mathews | Sand Paper Press, 2020
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"In his poetry, Harry’s work finds its essential form. Entire cosmologies are distilled into poems just a page or two in length. They can be read a hundred times, and remain fresh with every reading."
-Arlo Haskell
Lit Hub | Feburary 13, 2020
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Underworld Lit by Srikanth Reddy | Wave Books, 2020
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"It's a harrowing, Danteesque journey, a class that, perhaps, should be required for all; thankfully Reddy has provided all the necessary materials for us to take it from home."
-Craig Morgan Teicher
NPR | Feburary 13, 2020
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Earth by Hannah Brooks-Motl | The Song Cave, 2019
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"What is a chorus? What does it mean to be in a multivocal performance mode or composition mode? What does it mean to have a single voice? Those are very interesting questions, and they're very profoundly realized in the book itself."
-Jonathan Suhr
Adroit Journal | Feburary 24, 2020 |
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God Was Right by Diana Hamilton | Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018
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"Hamilton mimics the formulaic constructions of logic that appear in books of philosophy, using bulleted lists, intricate syllogisms, and appeals to an in-common reason that measures and disciplines thought; ultimately, however, these formulas fail, the terms fold in on each other, and the logic of dream or fantasy or memory turns the construction on its head."
-Astrid Lorange
Sydney Review of Books | February 28, 2020
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"Sometimes the anger grows to “the size of an international hotel,” and sometimes the speaker fantasizes about killing men with Hitachis, or smashing glasses in her clients’ suites."
The Rumpus | February 28th, 2020
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"This is, in my opinion, one of the best books written in the past year. It is challenging and insightful. It builds off a longstanding tradition and still manages to create something truly new. This book is a play insofar as it has dialogue, it is a poem insofar as it is not prose, and it is an epic insofar as it narrates the story of a hero who is alive with equal parts weakness and courage."
-Jesi Bender
The Androit Journal | March 11, 2020
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With Teeth By Natanya Ann Pulley | New Rivers Press, 2019
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"...meticulously written, while all the while abounding with glimpses of the bizarre and brutal."
-Tobias Carroll
Vol 1 Brooklyn | March 23,2020
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