May 2012 Issue of Gently Read Literature

Gently Read Literature: Reviews of Contemporary Poetry & Literary Fiction

May 2012

 

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_may


*Breathless Within The Selah: Caitelen Schneeberger on Susanna Childress’s poetry collection Entering The House of Awe


*Attempted Redemption: Mary Alexandra Agner on Sally Rosen Kindred’s poetry collection No Eden


*Impeccable Surprise: Victoria Lynne McCoy on Melissa Broder’s poetry collection When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother


*Poetry from a Single Poem: Amy Henry on Stephen Tapscott’s translation of the poems of Georg Trakl


*Finding These Dead Things: Michelle Ovalle on Aracelis Girmay’s poetry collection Kingdom Animalia

 


*A Rarefying Alchemy: L.J. Moore on Ada Limon’s poetry collection sharks in the rivers


*A Way to Access Secrets: Margaret Rozga on Peggy Shumaker’s poetry collection Gnawed Bones


*Stories about the Digital Age: Troy Weaver on Mike Young’s story collection Look! Look! Feathers

 


*The New World like Heavy Luggage: Mitch Levenberg Stephanie Hart’s creative nonfiction collection Mirror, Mirror

 


*Required Reading in an Election Year: Trina Burke on Susan Tichy’s poetry collection Gallowglass

 

 

 

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_may

 

 

 

 

 

4th Anniversary Issue of Gently Read Literature, April 2012

Gently Read Literature

April 2012


 

GRL’s 4th Anniversary

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_apr

 



An Explosion of the Young: Rusty Barnes on the flash fiction anthology Sudden Flash Youth

 

Pulling the Wool Over Our Eyes: Michael Boccardo on David Hernandez’s poetry collection Hoodwinked

 

Guidebook to an Unknown City: Mike Walker on Carsten Rene Nielsen’s poetry collection House Inspections

 

Wynn Yarbrough on Kristina Darling’s poetry collection The Body is a Little Gilded Cage

 

Succulent Lushness: Andy Linkner on Eric Baus’s poetry collection Scared Text

 

Style, Structure, Music: Jack Remick on Julene Tripp Weaver’s poetry collection No Father Can Save Her

 

Subtle & Pleasing: CL Bledsoe on Carol Novack’s Giraffes in Hiding

 

The Chronic Search: Gerry LaFemina on Michael Waters’s poetry collection Gospel Night

 

An Excellent Prognosis: Cindy Hochman on Richard Berlin’s poetry collection Secret Wounds

 

A Few Pages of Intimacy: Lisa M. Cole on Margaret Bashaar’s chapbook Letter from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel

 

 

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_apr

 

Gently Read Literature, February 2012

Gently Read Literature

February 2012

Reviews of Contemporary Poetry & Literary Fiction

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_feb

 

Frightening & Familiar: Amy Henry on Timothy O’Keefe’s poetry collection The Goodbye Town from Oberlin College Press

Seasonal Patrons: Joe Sullivan on Matthew Guenette’s poetry collection American Busboy from the University of Akron Press

We Are All Implicated: Cindy St. John on Susan Briante’s poetry collection Utopia Minus from Ahsahta Press

Pivotal Yet Ordinary Moments: David S. Atkinson on Richard Duggin’s Why Won’t You Talk To Me: Selected Stories from Outskirts Press

Whatever You Eat You’re Gonna Shit: Christopher Crawford on Nick Demske’s poetry collection Nick Demske from Fence Books

The Deranging of Language: Langdon Dean Julius on Scott Wilkerson’s poetry collection Threading Stone from New Plains Press

Dancing with the Stars: Barbara Goldberg on Jay Rogoff’s poetry collection The Art of Gravity from Louisiana State University Press

The Country of Want: Rita Mae Reese on Shara McCallum’s poetry collection This Strange Land from Alice James Books

Joe Sullivan on 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Young Writers from Starcherone Books

In the Aftermath:  Sandy Longhorn on Allison Joseph’s poetry collection My Father’s Kites from Steel Toe Books

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_feb

If you would like to support Gently Read Literature you may donate by sending a check payable to “Daniel Casey” with Gently Read Literature in the Memo line to this address:

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Favorite Books of 2011

Happy New Year

 

Everyone loves end of the year lists–best of’s, if you will. So I’ve decided to present Gently Read Literature’s Books of the Year 2011, twelve favorites. These titles were all reviewed in Gently Read Literature over 2011.

 

Enjoy!

Daniel Casey, editor Gently Read Literature

 

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 1.      In Which Brief Stories Are Told, Phillip Sterling, Wayne State University Press, 2011

Reviewed in the December issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_dec

 

2.      To Be Human is to be a Conversation, Andrea Rexilius, Rescue Press, 2011

Reviewed in the November issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov

 

 3.      The Girl with Brown Fur, Stacey Levine, Starcherone, 2011

Reviewed in the July & November issues

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/julyissue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov

 

4.      Mule, Shane McCrae, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011

Reviewed in the October issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue

 

 5.      The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning , Maggie Nelson, W.W. Norton, 2011

Reviewed in the October issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue

 

6.      Ordinary Suns, Matthew Henriksen, Black Ocean, 2011

Reviewed in the July issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/julyissue

 

 7.      The Grief Perfomance, Emily Kendal Frey, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011

Reviewed in the September issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/september_issue

 

8.      In the Kingdom of the Sons, Bonnie Bolling, Briery Creek Press, 2011

Reviewed in the August issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/august_issue1

 

 9.      Nahoonkara: A novel, Peter Grandbois , Etruscan Press, 2011

Reviewed in the September issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/september_issue

 

10.  lie down too, Lesle Lewis, Alice James Books, 2011

Reviewed in the October issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue

 

 11.  Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, G. C. Waldrep and John Gallaher, BOA Editions, 2011

Reviewed in the October issue

http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue

 

12.  No Eden, Sally Rosen Kindred, Mayapple Press, 2011

Reviewed in the May issue

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Gently Read Literature can now be purchased for download to your Nook or Kindle!

 

Gently Read Literature can now be purchased for download to your Nook or Kindle!

Not only will Gently Read Literature be sent free to our list of subscribers every month but also we will offer digital download to you e-reader, tablet, or hand-held device.

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November 2011 Issue of Gently Read Literature

New Issue of Gently Read Literature
November 2011
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov

In this month’s issue–
**A Poet at the Painter’s Table: Derek Fenner on Patrick James Dunagan’s There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn’t Talk
**RE: RE: Ed Davis reviews Meredith Sue Willis’s Re-Visions
**Love Poems for Weary Revolutionaries: Cheryl Klein on Jen Benka’s Pinko
**A New Kind of Air: Clark Knowles on Julie Doxsee’s Objects for a Fog Death
**Art Objects: Sam Kerbel on Art From Art
**An On-Going Conversation: Kristina Marie Darling on Kyle McCord & Jeannie Hoag’s Informal Invitation to a Traveler
**Sucker-Punched: Sonja Livingston on Louis B. Jones’s Radiance
**Sobering Expanse: Rita Mae Reese on Mark Jarman’s New & Selected Poems Bone Fires
**Listen to This: Megan Marton on Andrea Rexilius’s To Be Human is to be a Conversation
**Missed by Casual Contemplation: Amy Henry on Stacey Levine’s The Girl with Brown Fur

Check it out!
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov

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To all of you who have donated, thank you so much! We’re that much closer to our end goal!

Remember, Gently Read Literature is a free publication. This fundraising drive is meant to allow GRL to pay the freelance reviewers that make GRL what it is–a thoughtful, in-depth monthly magazine devoted to critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction.

If we reach the set goal of $5000, then Gently Read Literature will have enough funds to pay contributors for the next 3 years!

But, unless we reach the target goal of $5000, we won’t get any funds at all.
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Gently Read Literature Fundraising Drive

Loyal & Avid Readers,

Gently Read Literature has been providing thoughtful, in-depth critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction every month since 2008. This year, GRL undergone a cosmetic make-over, presenting the same high quality, accessible literary reviews but in a more polished and savvy electronic format. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, just take a look at our current issue, http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue

Building on this success, GRL intends to provide a space for independent and university publishers/presses and authors to promote their literary endeavors. Gently Read Literature is a free literary magazine and plans to stay that way, however with your help GRL can continue to offer professional reviews from impassioned writers and readers for years to come. The literary community desperately needs critical outlets that are neither superficial nor overly academic; Gently Read Literature sees itself as helping to fill this space.GRL is a volunteer magazine, founder & editor Daniel Casey and designer Carol Jackson put Gently Read Literature together every month without compensation because they believe in the work. But they also believe in compensating the great critics, writers, and readers who as freelancers contribute reviews to GRL. Using the public radio model, Gently Read Literature is in the midst of a 43 day fundraising drive to collect enough funds to finally pay contributors: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielcasey/gently-read-literature

Kickerstarter is a site dedicated to help fund creative projects–on Kickstarter a project must reach its funding goal before any money changes hands. We’ve set a goal of $5000, an amount which will allow GRL pay contributors for the next few years. All funds raised will go towards compensating the freelance reviewers who make Gently Read Literature what it is. Please consider donating to support Gently Read Literature. Even a donation of $1 gets us closer to our goal.

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Thank you so much for all of your support
Daniel Casey, Editor/Founder Gently Read Literature
Carol Jackson, Design Editor Gently Read Literature