Books and print culture appear in Navicky’s prose poetry as bodies, as material. Books here are often monuments in ruin, subject to the same forces of moisture and gravity as human bodies.
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Barrelhouse Reviews: WHAT FALLS AWAY IS ALWAYS, ed. Katharine Haake and Gail Wronsky
What I found instead was comfort: comfort in the company of writers who go before me.
Read MoreBarrelhouse Reviews: HOW TO SURVIVE A HUMAN ATTACK by K. E. Flann
Certainly, we could all use some strategies to avoid a portion of the human population actively trying to murder us.
Read MoreBarrelhouse Reviews: WHITE MAGIC by Elissa Washuta
White Magic emerges as a collection that is not as much a “working through” as it is a “working with,” sifting through the fictions that shape, maim, and at times save us.
Read MoreBarrelhouse Reviews: SISTER SÉANCE by Aimee Parkison
Parkison’s writing is a literature of witness. At the novel’s heart is a hauntology: photography captures (as well as liberates) a person.
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