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Posted Under: Announcements, Art & ReviewsThe Girls: A Novel by Lori Lansens
Back Bay Books, 2005 Reconfigurations of the Self Review by Shannon K. Winston Lori Lansen’s The Girls: A Novel is a subtle and carefully crafted investigation of what it means to be human and to engage with others in the world. It asks important questions such as: what does it mean to be “normal” and [...]
One Window & Eight Bars by Rati Saxena
KRITYA Publishing, 2007 A Passage to India Review by Kimberly L. Becker Hindi poet, translator and Sanskrit scholar Rati Saxena believes that, “To write a poem / you have to / walk on fire.” In her second book in English, One Window & Eight Bars, she seems to do just that. It is apparent why [...]
One World Café presents Sharanya Manivannan
Off the Page and Off the Hook If seeing is believing, hearing is conceiving: of a new day and way for poetry. Sharanya Manivannan is conceiving a new poetry. Born in India in 1985, she grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. She currently lives in India and has performed in the Utan Kayu International [...]
Poster Child by Emily Rapp
Bloomsbury, 2007 Review by Suzanne Kamata The March of Dimes exists to help prevent birth defects, so, in theory, the child featured on the March of Dimes poster is the kind of child that mothers are hoping to avoid. This irony is at the heart of Emily Rapp’s wonderful memoir, Poster Child. Rapp, who was [...]
The Writing Circle by Rozena Maart
Tsar Books, 2007 Review by Suzanne Kamata The group friendship novel is a staple of women’s literature. Typically, such a novel brings together several women who went to college together (as in Mary McCarthy’s The Group, a classic of the genre) or women who grew up in the same neighborhood (as in Rebecca Wells’ best-selling [...]
A Garden of Aloes by G. Davies Jandrey
The Permanent Press, 2008 Starting Over Review by Vanessa Dora Murray Gayle Davies Jandrey spent 28 years teaching public high schoolers and this experience, no doubt, has enabled her to create an incredible cast of real characters in her debut work of fiction, A Garden of Aloes. Jandrey does an outstanding job crafting six characters’ [...]
Prau by Jean Vengua
Meritage Press, 2007 Pinning Down the Escape Artist Review by Lee Kottner “Listen to catch with intimate hooks the drift / of King James or a coroner’s conversation / nurse learned syllables as seeded fluff to Velcro . . .” Jean Vengua tells us near the end of her new poetry collection, (italics)Prau,(/italics) winner of [...]
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