(Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2019) Rob Schlegel’s third collection of poems, In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps, is artfully eclectic, an intricate fusion of meditative lyric and personal narrative that explores creative notions of identity … Continued
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017) Adam Giannelli seizes the fine line between light and dark while exposing the movement through language in his book Tremulous Hinge. He is able to display the conflict of time and language in … Continued
(Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2016) Lindsay Tigue’s System of Ghosts gives its reader a sharp observation about one’s isolation and individual environment. Her word choices are plain and used with reverence towards what they refer to. She … Continued
(Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2015) Harnessing the power of observation in service of revelation is slow, painstaking work, but its results appear effortless in the best nonfiction. Maggie Messitt achieves this in her elegant first book, The … Continued