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Who’s Afraid of Orpheus and Eurydice? Part 2: Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 2
The Xenotext: Book 2 is the culminating second half of Christian Bök’s 25-year Xenotext project. It has received less media attention than Book 1, but I can assure those who enjoyed the first volume they will not be disappointed in the second. For those unfamiliar with Bök’s work I would say: do not be intimidated […]

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Loss and Discovery of Self Through Language in Kyo Lee’s I cut my tongue on a broken country
In her debut poetry collection, Lee shows language’s inadequacy to navigate queerness at the intersection of Korean heritage, familial expectation, and coming of age, and to navigate Korean identity in an oppressive white culture. The navigation begins with the section titles, which, according to Lee, are Korean words/concepts that cannot be directly translated to English. [R...

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The Imaginative Superpower: Carol Krause’s A Bouquet of Glass
Before writing this review, I was asked to carefully read the acknowledgements. I think, because this book is a frank discussion of a poetess disabled by neurodivergence, she’s in turn concerned by the narrative of disability in the pages. As she says, “I should write reviews… I’d worry about people thinking what happened to my […]

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Growing Through Grief: Jessica Bebenek’s No One Knows Us There
Split in two parts, Jessica Bebenek’s debut poetry collection, No One Knows Us There, reflects on the grief of end-of-life care over the course of a decade. Heavy with the immediacy of loss, part one contains poems written by a younger Bebenek during the last few months of her grandfather’s life. Part two is gentler […]

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Changing with the tide: Melanie Marttila’s The Art of Floating
Melanie Marttila’s debut collection beautifully evokes many interconnected themes. There is the wondrous sky with clouds “dancing / to the symphony of / blood and sun and / royal navy slate” (“Manitou sky”); the weather and waterways of the author’s home in Northern Ontario, its pines, spruces and birches, its many birds whose “beauty must […]

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