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Reviews

Sarah Freligh: A Review of Teresa Leo’s Bloom in Reverse

August 5, 2014 by PBQ

In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus suggests that the “only really serious philosophical question . . . is suicide.” Sisyphus is condemned to push a boulder uphill only to see it roll back. In the wake of a loved one’s suicide, the living are left to puzzle over unfathomable loss, the metaphorical rock that […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Issue 89, Prose, Prose 89, Reviews Tagged With: Contributors 89, Prose, Prose 89, Reviews, Sarah Freligh, Teresa Leo

Carley Moore: Review for Painted Bride Quarterly

July 6, 2011 by PBQ

Discipline by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books, 2011) The first word of Dawn Lundy Martin’s newest collection of poetry, Discipline, is “excreta,” which is fitting because this is a book about what the body leaves behind and knows by way of its material leavings—feces, blood, sweat, and tears. In Discipline, Martin considers the ways in […]

Filed Under: Contributors 84, Issue 84, Reviews Tagged With: Carley Moore, Contributors 84, Dawn Lundy Martin, Reviews

Thomas March: A Review of Sublimation Point by      Jason Schneiderman

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

The title of Jason Schneiderman’s collection of poems, Sublimation Point, refers to the temperature at which some solids transform directly into gasses. The first of the book’s two epigraphs is the scientific definition of that term, taken from James A. Plambec’s Thermometry. That definition appears again in the book’s second epigraph—only now in the form […]

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Prose, Prose 77, Reviews Tagged With: Contributors 77, Prose, Prose 77, Reviews, Thomas March

Andrew Keller: The Paradox of Desire (A Review of      Histories of Bodies, a poetry collection by Mariko Nagai)

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

Red Hen Press Want is the body’s fate: sitting while desiring to stand, standing while thinking about sitting. There is no end to our hunger, and once we taste the impracticality of lust, there is no way to quell our pain. If the body wants something, the body does what it must to fulfill its […]

Filed Under: Contributors 77, Issue 77, Prose, Prose 77 Tagged With: Andrew Keller, Contributors 77, Prose, Prose 77, Reviews

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