Cooper’s River of Ink is an exquisite offering whose words sing in the blood. Ink spills across the cover like the eponymous river, evoking the beautiful nature of the story within. This is a tale of conquest, change, and forbidden love. Likewise, it is a tale of ancient Sri Lanka. Above all, it is the […]
***Trigger Warning- racism, sexism, and homophobia The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is a fascinating and thought-provoking story, told entirely through snapshot poems, focusing on Xiomara Batista, a young girl from Harlem with an extraordinary talent for writing poetry. The novel explores themes of family, religion, love, and self-discovery. The author uses vivid descriptions and […]
Outside: Exploring Nature by Maria Ana Peixe Dias & Ines Teixeira do Rosario Outside: Exploring Nature takes a look at the great outdoors via weather, and land formations. There was a neat section on oceans, and another on planets and stars. The artwork reminded me a great deal of that found in Shel Silverstein’s books, […]
The Day is Ready for You by Alison Malee is a poetry collection divded into three parts: unmoveable things, a restless pause, and prayers like exhales. The entire collection is free-verse, and written in all lowercase text. Part one seems very anger filled, with themes of a wanting for love, the inculcated beliefs of being […]
**This book was reviewed for the Seattle Book Review* I have no words adequate to describe the beauty of this work. As the opening poem, Progeny, suggests, each of these poems are seeds, burrowing in the mind to unfurl exquisite truths. I have an ecopy of this book, but I want a hardcopy to […]