Rebecca van Laer
How to Adjust to the Dark
Long Day Press, 2022
$16.00
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How to Adjust to the Dark is a prose-and-poetry novella that follows narrator Charlotte as she looks back on the poems from her early 20s to dismantle her young adult belief that falling in love and making art have to hurt. In this video, Rebecca reads from the chapter “Fisheyes."
former DMQ Review Contributor
Kathleen winter
Cat's Tongue
Texas Review Press, 2022
$16.95
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Welcome to this short reading of three poems from my 2022 chapbook, Cat's Tongue.
Poems read:
“Force of Habit"
“Cat's Tongue"
“Memory Fruit"
The book is a trajectory of a woman's early life in Texas, laden with plenty of mixed feelings and delivered in a variety of poetic modes and voices. The title poem is a prose poem, surreal, and as feline as I could make it. Vivas to DMQ Review and Texas Review Press.
Richard Wollman
Changeable Gods
Slate Roof Press, 2022
$17
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Changeable Gods is a remarkable book in which Wollman creates poems at once complex and intimate. The gods he speaks of don't always inspire trust, but do, however, inspire lyric poetry of sheer beauty.
–Alfred Nicol
Poetry that soars. Vast, varied, ever-shifting, creating its own world, our world…Wollman…is deeply attuned to the colors, cloudscapes, streaks, and nightdomes…. A depth of love and connection, and the gaping void of loss, is implicit, and… it makes sense that Wollman’s attention is aimed at the sky—its endlessness the only place vast enough to house the feeling of what’s gone.
–Nina McLaughlin, Boston Globe