Review: Chain Link Fence
Chain Link Fence, poems by Patti White Reviewed by Brent House As a child growing up in South Mississippi, I was given the chore of plucking the fascicles of pine needles that had fallen into the...
View ArticleReview: Fourth City
Fourth City: Essays From the Prison in America by Doran Larson Reviewed by Dyan Neary If the mark of a democracy were determined by how a nation treats its prisoners, the United States would certainly...
View ArticleReview: Paris Twilight
Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer Reviewed by Gabrielle Bellot The allure of Paris for certain Americans is a phenomenon well-known-enough by now to be a kind of American cultural meme, one dating back long...
View ArticleReview: The Lady from Tel Aviv
The Lady from Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun Raba’i al-Madhoun’s novel, The Lady from Tel Aviv (shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction), articulates several human experiences:...
View ArticleReview: A Wilderness of Monkeys
The title of David Kirby’s collection appears to indict humankind. Is Kirby insulting the reader? Are we implicated in some grand conspiracy of dunces? The leaflet page quotes Shylock from The Merchant...
View ArticleReview: Ron Salutsky’s Romeo Bones
Review by Laura Minor The innocence and desire for love in a first book—I’ll never get over it. There is an intimacy in trusting someone’s imaginative leaps for the first time. In Ron Salutsky’s Romeo...
View ArticleReview: Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering: New & Collected Essays
Review by Gary Sheppard In Loitering: New & Collected Essays, Charles D’Ambrosio’s first book in eight years, we encounter the same masterly attentiveness to the complexities of language and...
View ArticleReview: The Committee on Town Happiness
Review by Emily Faison “Had the edge moved in the night?” “Where did the balloon go?” “How do you measure happiness?” Ninety-nine brief stories ask more questions than they answer. Narrated by a...
View ArticleReview: War of the Foxes
The War of the Foxes, by Richard Siken Review by William Fargason After the success of his first book of poetry, Crush, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 2004, Richard Siken...
View ArticleReview: Between Wrecks
Between Wrecks, by George Singleton Review by Hector Mojena In George Singleton’s Between Wrecks, the South is as much a physical space as it is an ever-present theme. A psycho-geography rich in...
View ArticleNow Featuring… SER Nanoreviews
by Kaveh Akbar (Book Review Editor) and John Ebersole The Southeast Review is very pleased to welcome John Ebersole, editor in chief of Public Pool and former poetry editor for The Philadelphia...
View ArticleReview: Days of Shame & Failure
Days of Shame & Failure by Jennifer L. Knox Review by Laura Minor Even the lovers of poetry get bored sometimes, and we often bring a little of that disenchantment with us when we sit down to read...
View ArticleReview: The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert Review by Emily Faison By the end of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, my mouth was watering for a fluffy slice of cake. Amy E. Reichert anticipated my...
View ArticleReview: Do Not Rise
Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann Review by Brandi Nicole Martin When Beth Bachmann released Temper in 2009, she left a violent mark on the poetry world with her elegiac lyrics and her biting lines, lines...
View ArticleReview: The Rusted City
The Rusted City by Rochelle Hurt Review by Keith Kopka Peter Johnson, editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, defines prose poetry as an intricate balance. He explains, “Just as black humor...
View ArticleReview: Call Me By My Other Name
Call Me By My Other Name by Valerie Wetlaufer Review by Emily Faison I’m still not sure if Valerie Wetlaufer has written a history in verse, or simply folded history into poetry, but either way, Call...
View ArticleReview: The Dead Lands
The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy Review by Eric Schlich Benjamin Percy knows how to write a compelling monster novel. In Red Moon (2013), he uses lycanthropy (werewolves) to explore terrorism, racial...
View ArticleReview: The Genome Rhapsodies
The Genome Rhapsodies by Anna George Meek Review by Kelsey Satalino Relatives coo over an infant, his future formed by both his drug-addicted parents’ DNA and the words of family members who have...
View ArticleReview: The Narrow Door
The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky Review by Sean Towey Vulnerability spills from Paul Lisicky’s memior The Narrow Door. An atmosphere of exposure hovers over work, relationships, and homes and leaves us...
View ArticleReview: Thief in the Interior
Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams Review by Jayme Ringleb All of the poems in Thief in the Interior, Phillip B. Williams’s debut collection, are poems in direct conversation with poetic...
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