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American Microreviews & Interviews — succinct, incisive quarterly reviews & interviews

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Issue 53 of American Microreviews & Interviews is here! Please check out our stellar Summer 2021 edition, featuring reviews of new books by @amorak, @DeMistyB, Conor Bracken, Zach VandeZande, and more. #WritingCommunity https://t.co/KQO7qNPuO9

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My review of. @angeladribben's EVERYGIRL, is up at @AMRIJournal https://t.co/6QRghkp6Vr

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@RubenQuesada We specialize in microreviews — succinct but rich explorations of notable new books (poetry and fiction). https://t.co/NWqe0iQu6U

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"In Walkman, I found that Robbins’ ironic distance was a roundabout way of disarming the reader and allowing an incredibly potent voice to shine through."

Brett Belcastro reviews Walkman by Michael Robbins in @AMRIJournal Issue 53. @PenguinBooks https://t.co/HAHJjDjZ6B

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"Brautigan meets Bachelard meets Twilight Zone: Zach VandeZande’s collection of vignettes is whimsical, surreal, and eerily familiar."

Check out Alana Kelley's review of Liminal Domestic Stories by Zach VandeZande. @GoldWakePress https://t.co/OK384YWfej

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"A deft hand continues to describe intimate details—poem after poem—with exquisite precision."

@risaden reviews the powerful collection Everygirl by Angela Dribben in Issue 53 of @AMRIJournal. @MainStreetRag #writingcommunity https://t.co/bPQXzLBOQB

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"Conor Bracken’s The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me treads the stolid waters and vile mud of a no-man’s land created by vicious American violence."

Check out Sarah Senseny's trenchant review in @AMRIJournal Issue 53. @DiodeEditions #WritingCommunity https://t.co/c67obS9iZr

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A powerful textual, vernacular, and craft reclamation, "Erase the Patriarchy contains poems that wrestle back power and agency"

@AMRIJournal Editor Elise Matthews reviews Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry, edited by Isobel O’Hare. https://t.co/DPw5ejQWVw

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"Fluid yet dialectically alert," Peculiar Heritage offers an essential cartography of racial consciousness and human resilience.

Margot Douaihy reviews DeMisty D. Bellinger's "blazing" new book in AMRI Issue 53. @DeMistyB @masonjarpress @MargotDouaihy https://t.co/NWqe0iQu6U

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Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy by @amorak is an "astonishing work of droll, self-deprecating, unclothed insights about masculinity."

Check out our insightful book review by @risaden. #WritingCommunity @SundressPub https://t.co/04rOe4S7PA

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We love @megan_alpert's The Animal at Your Side from
@airliepress2, which "offer[s] the message of resilience, of having come through a dark place not entirely alone."
Check out the rest of our review: https://t.co/pzTWIugbK9

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Issue 52 is here! Check out our Spring 2021 reviews: https://t.co/WDGZI8UbZv

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Our first issue since COVID hit will drop in a couple of days. We’re excited to share it with you! What have you read and loved in the past year?

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@mjlevan @LannieStabile Yes! We only take shorter reviews. Send us an email at [email protected].

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AMRI is back after a long hiatus due to COVID-19, and we're looking for contributors. If you're interested in reviewing or interviewing for us, send your CV/resume and a writing sample to [email protected]. Spread the word!

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In light of COVID-19, we will be taking a hiatus for our upcoming summer issue. In the meantime, you can check out all of our past issues here: https://t.co/VOGhmiTJml

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“But just as our online data makes arguments about us and also makes us just like everyone else, these poems are rhetorical yet unapologetically discursive and self-effacing.”

Google Caroline Knox’s “Hear Trains” and then check out our review- https://t.co/WTh7PUgGqZ

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“Cory Brown’s latest collection, ‘Elisions’, demonstrates what Anne Sexton says about form and content. Form is a cage, Sexton observed, while the content is the animal that moves in it.”

Our review of “Elisions” from our new issue-

https://t.co/7sR2VDG5NZ

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#QOTW: “Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”
—Annie Dillard

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“She is back on solid ground, and she is ready to live again, to be a body again.”

Our review of Emily Skaja’s poetry collection, “Brute”-

https://t.co/qEvBxDGRPQ