Resurrecting Medusa: Villain Made Survivor in Raegen Pietrucha's Head of a Gorgon
By Joanna Acevedo Head of a Gorgon by Raegen Pietrucha Vegetarian Alcoholic Press May 17, 2022 $16.99, 80pp Raegen Pietrucha’s Head of a...
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BOOK REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS
“You Can Lie to Others, but You Can’t Lie to Yourself”: Gene Kwak as Portrait of Humility & Craft
By Gage Saylor Go Home, Ricky! Gene Kwak The Overlook Press, October 2021 USD $26.00 272 pages Editor’s Note: This review has been edited...
“What Is the More Complicated Truth I’m Not Facing?”: A Conversation with Chen Chen on Vulnerability
By Joanna Acevedo Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen. BOA Editions, Ltd., 2022. USD $17.00. 128 pages. When...
Love in the Time of Opera: The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
by Esteban Rodríguez The Bloater Rosemary Tonks New Directions Publishing, 2022 USD $15.95 160 pages It may be difficult to imagine...
Which Side are You On?: Anna Moschovakis’s Participation
By Gage Saylor Participation by Anna Moschovakis. Coffee House Press, 2022. USD $16.95. 216 pages. There are two groups in the world of...
How’s Your Heart? stemmy things by imogen xtian smith
By Joanna Acevedo stemmy things by imogen xtian smith. Nightboat Books, 2022. $17.95. 152 pages. imogen xtian smith’s new collection,...
The Hem of the Star: Casual Conversation by Renia White
By Livia Meneghin Casual Conversation by Renia White BOA Editions, Ltd. April 2022 80 pages $17.00 USD In Casual Conversation, a Blessing...
Living Within the Wound: A Review of The Gleaming of the Blade
by Genevieve Hartman The Gleaming of the Blade by Christian J. Collier. Bull City Press, 2022. 36 pages. USD $12.00. CW: Police...
A Flower in His Pocket: Jacob Griffin Hall’s Propensity for Beauty and Our Deliverance
By Remi Recchia Burial Machine by Jacob Griffin Hall Backlash Press, 2022 72 pages £18.99 Jacob Griffin Hall is a poet of and for his...
WE MEET IN DARKNESS: Coral Bracho and Memory in Translation
by Alina Stefanescu It Must Be a Misunderstanding. by Coral Bracho Trans. from the Spanish by Forrest Gander New Directions, May 2022 160...
“What’ll Become of Us in the End”: Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi, translated by Brian Sneeden
by Livia Meneghin Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi trs. from the Greek by Brian Sneeden New Directions, 2022 $16.95 USD 128 pages Phoebe...
Jerks
By Gage Saylor JERKS by Sara Lippmann Mason Jar Press, 2022 USD $21.00 154 pages The women and girls in JERKS are, you guessed it:...
World-Building in Ben Estes’ ABC Moonlight
By Whitney Kerutis ABC Moonlight by Ben Estes The Song Cave, 2022 USD $18.95 When we think of world-building, we often look first to...
Poetry and Prayer: The Night I Came Out to God
by: Remi Recchia The Night I Came Out to God by J.D. Waggy Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022 110 pages USD $11.00 Part liturgy, part...
Beneath Greenery and Shadows: Iman Mohammed’s Behind the Tree Backs as trs. by Jennifer Hayashida
By Livia Meneghin Behind the Tree Backs by Iman Mohammed trs. from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022 USD $16...
Trouble in Paradais: Review of Fernanda Melchor's Paradais
by: Gage Saylor Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, trans. Sophie Hughes. New Directions Books, 2022. 128 pages. USD $19.95. The second outing...
Blood, Roots, and Ancestry: The Anatomy of Heritage and Loss in Kristin LaFollette’s Hematology
By Remi Recchia Hematology by Kristin LaFollette. Harbor Editions, 2021. 106 pages. USD $18.00. Located in a place in which the natural...
Lifting the Sky: Two Bolts by Matt Broaddus
by: Livia Meneghin Two Bolts by Matt Broaddus Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021 USD $12.00. Pulling equally from reality and imagination, Two...
INVOCATIONS OF TIME IN RECENT POETRY: AMISH TRIVEDI AND ELIZABETH HUGHEY
by: Alina Stefanescu Futurepanic by Amish Trivedi. Co*Im*Press, 2021. 107 pages. USD $19.95. White Bull by Elizabeth Hughey. Sarabande...
“Absences and Apologies”: A Review of Nicholas Wong’s Besiege Me
By Livia Meneghin Besiege Me by Nicholas Wong. Noemi Press, March 15, 2021. 80 pages. USD $18.00 When I picked up Besiege Me for the...
“Streets Made Marigold”: A Review of Burying the Mountain
By Genevieve Hartman Burying the Mountain by Shangyang Fang. Copper Canyon Press, October 12, 2021. 112 pages. USD $16.00 In Burying the...
The Unabandoned Self in Megan Culhane Galbraith's Memory Book
By Alina Stefanescu The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child's Memory Book. Megan Culhane Galbraith Ohio State University Press,...
"Reshaped by This Absence”: Review of SJ Norman’s Permafrost as a meditation on desire and lonelines
by Anna Westbrook Permafrost by SJ Norman University of Queensland Press, 2021. AUD$29.99 SJ Norman’s debut collection of short fiction...
Revisiting A Dynamic Range of Various Designs for Quiet: An Interview with Josh Bettinger
This is part four of a micro-interview series Gasher is conducting with authors of the first Gasher chapbooks. Josh Bettinger is the...
“Ever Tenuous:” A Review of Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang.
By Genevieve Hartman Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang Graywolf, 2021. 224 pp. $17.00 “Yellow rain” began falling from communist-controlled...
A Student Again: Reflections on Street Cop by Robert Coover, with drawings by Art Spiegelman
Street Cop by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman Isolarii, Subscriptions $15 USD The last time I saw Bob was in Providence about seven,...
A conversation with C.R. Grimmer: Writing against inherited master narratives
This is part three of a five-part micro-interview series Gasher is conducting with authors of the first Gasher chapbooks. Alex Moni-Sauri...
Review: Transitivity and Shifting Identity in The Art of Fugue
The Art of Fugue by Will Clattenburg Uncollected Press, 2020. $20.90 Will Clattenburg examines the distance between the past and the...
“Vault-hunter traipsing across the galaxy”: Roseanna Alice Boswell's conversation with Dani Putney
Salamat Sa Intersectionality by Dani Putney Okay Donkey Books, 2021. $13.00 On April 8th, a little after 2 p.m., Dani Putney sits on my...
The Poetic/Artistic Hand as Part of the Landscape: An Interview with Alex Moni-Sauri
This is part one of a five-part micro-interview series Gasher is conducting with authors of the first Gasher chapbooks. Alex Moni-Sauri...
Collaborative Essay on the Collaborative Process for Between Us, Not Half a Saint, in Raga Bhairav
By Rajiv Mohabir and Rushi Vyas Raga: Bhairav (a name for Shiva. A raga for daybreak. Contemplative mood) Instruments: Bansuri (Rajiv),...
‘The Harmony and Cacophony of Tongues’: An Interview with Oscar Mancinas
This is part one of a five-part micro-interview series Gasher is conducting with authors of the first Gasher chapbooks. We begin with an...
Review: A Spring-Loaded Spectacle in the “Archive of Harm” in Jessica Q. Stark’s Savage Pageant
Savage Pageant by Jessica Q. Stark Birds, LLC, 2020. $18 One historic meaning of “pageant” according to the Oxford English Dictionary is...
REVIEW: Transformation in Joy Priest’s Horsepower and Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Horsepower by Joy Priest Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, September 2020, $17 In her debut poetry collection, Horsepower, Joy Priest builds her...
The Poetics of Sacred Space in Dujie Tahat's Salat
Salat by Dujie Tahat Tupelo Press, November 2020. $12.95 1. As Palestinian-American poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha notes in her blurb, "Salat...
International Journal Spotlight: Starling (Aotearoa New Zealand)An Interview with Louise Wallace
This is the first installment of an occasional feature we will run to highlight a small journal or press outside of the US context. Since...
The Materials of Experience in Aaron Fagan’s A Better Place is Hard to Find
A Better Place is Hard to Find by Aaron Fagan The Song Cave, October 2020, $17.95 There are places out west, Denver among them, where...
REVIEW: Revolving Questions in CM Burroughs’s Master Suffering
Master Suffering by CM Burroughs Tupelo Press, January 2021, $18.95 USD For almost a year now, time has seemed imaginary. I, like so many...
REVIEW: Recovery Work in Jameson Fitzpatrick's Pricks in the Tapestry
Pricks in the Tapestry by Jameson Fitzpatrick Birds LLC, June 2020, $18 USD Lately, I have been thinking more discernably about a poem’s...
REVIEW: Intertextual Firebirds in Karla Kelsey’s Blood Feather
Blood Feather by Karla Kelsey. Tupelo Press, October 2020. $18.95. Through an examination of myth, art, theater, and film, Karla Kelsey’s...
REVIEW: No Single Camera in Silvina López Medin's Excursion
Excursion by Silvina López Medin. Oversound Press, 2020. 29 pages. $12.00. Chosen by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the 2019 Oversound...
REVIEW: On Self-Reflexivity, Revision, and Indeterminacy in Arrow by Sumita Chakraborty
Arrow by Sumita Chakraborty Alice James Books, September, 2020 Arrow (n.) a punctuation that refuses closure; a poetry collection to move...
REVIEW: Fur Not Light by Jeff Alessandrelli
Fur Not Light by Jeff Alessandrelli Burnside Review Press, 2019 To remember is to represent: remembering is the condition of not being...
An Interview with Michael Chin
[This is part of a series of interviews with GASHER reading interns. In this installment, intern, Daniel Garcia, chats with author of...
Review: The Wagner's by John Colasacco
The Wagners by John Colasacco Trnsfr Books, 2019 104 pages The Wagners by John Colasacco is a precious and foreboding book, a small,...
Interview with Grant Souders
IN THE SEAM is an on-going interview series that focuses on talks with authors who are between their first and second books. In this...
An Interview with Jared Boyd
[This is part of a series of interviews with GASHER contributors. In this installment, Managing Editor, Whitney Kerutis, chats with...
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