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We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
Poetry Editor Lisa Ampleman Interviews Jenna Le, Author of MANATEE LAGOON
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
“An immense tenderness underlies Salazar’s standout first collection. The poems probe the ever-presence of history, family, place, religion, and grief insisting on multidimensionality and the complicated ways the aforementioned entwine with us, for better and worse....
In Manatee Lagoon, her third full-length collection, physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment. Sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and a “failed georgic” weave in contemporary…
Set in Oakland, California, All the Tiny Beauties begins with a kitchen fire that sends the reclusive Webster Jackson to the home of his new neighbor, Colleen, who discovers him on her doorstep wearing a lacy peignoir, his house in flames.
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“Dan O’Brien’s collection has brought his experience of his wife’s and his own cancer into the realm of shared memory. Although deeply personal, his poetic memories transcend into the universal story of grief and caregiving. […]
Well, each has its own story, and each is grounded in a conversation with the author of the book—though sometimes what we end up with runs far afield from that original exchange of ideas.
Please enjoy the last installment of our Hispanic Heritage Month reading list, curated by Acre Author Malia Márquez, whose debut novel THIS FIERCE BLOOD is out October 15.