There is a point Tooth Box continues to stretch toward, where readers feel comfort, curiosity, and concern simultaneously.
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Barrelhouse Reviews: ONE PERSON HOLDS SO MUCH SILENCE by David Greenspan
Greenspan’s interests rest not in the comfort or ease of the reader, but rather in the uncertainty of language’s ability to convey an accurate assessment of a mortal lifespan, in all of its injuries and emptinesses.
Read MoreBarrelhouse Reviews: THE FACT OF MEMORY by Aaron Angello
As the objects and prose poems accumulate, the reader feels, paradoxically, a sense of lightness moving through this book. We, along with the speaker, “begin to understand life as aggregation.”
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AITA: A Conversation About Jerks with Sara Lippmann, by Shayne Terry
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There may not be a ton of happy endings but if I didn't believe in our capacity to change or grow or evolve, to love and feel and connect, if I didn't see the tender in the bark, then why write?
Read MoreBarrelhouse Reviews: GLASS BIKINI by Kristin Bock
Absurd, yes, but also a spot-on critique of our cultural woe, where craft and invention are commercialized, imitated, or abstracted into an NFT.
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