(Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2016) It’s not every book of short stories that feels like a book of poetry. Equally, it’s not every book that reads like a film. Enter John Domini’s Movieola!, a slim collection for those who … Continued
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015) “All day I was digging Armenian bones out of the Syrian desert…” So remembers poet and essayist Peter Balakian in the titular poem of his new collection, Ozone Journal. One hundred years on, … Continued
(Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2014) To be lost, forgotten, rejected. In a word: failure. There are precious few words in the English language that strike so hard, or cut so deep, bereft of nicety or preamble. No matter how one … Continued