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Review by Kristen Brida
daughterrarium
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Author: Sheila McMullin
ISBN: 978-0-9963167-5-0
Pub Date:4/1/2017
Retail Price:$ 16.00
I have read through McMullin’s debut collection daughterrarium at least twice. The first time I read them, I scribbled in the margins with a little more urgency than when I take notes for other books I read. The second time …
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Review by Holly Mason
Killing Summer
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press
Author: Sarah Browning
ISBN: 978-1-943977-40-6
Publication Date: 9/21/2017
Retail Price: $14.95
At a time when poets and writers are frequently and earnestly asking the age-old question of What can I do to help, to make change in this current social and political climate?, we can look to Sarah Browning as an …
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The first time I died, I felt fireworks shoot down my legs and I could taste their colors: red like your heart before it stopped and turned gray, golden green like your eyes. My chest was heavy and my head was light; my eyes were swollen like a prize fighter’s.
I touched you and repeated I’m sorry, I love you, I’m sorry.
When you saw me, you raised …
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Smudge.
I hate that word.
Smudge.
Do you say it in two syllables, or three?
[My Arkansas friend says it in three. Suh-muh-dge.]
So many consonants, all piled up; clutter. Rolling around. Alphabet soup.
Taste dirt. Taste sad. Taste. Taste—
Smudge.
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“Pinched like a pear,” my mom would say. Mouth closed, a little pucker, sweet sour smooth. But not a kiss; not a real kiss. It was bad, …
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