Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #61
Featuring Maria Giesbrech, Jane Doucet. Adriana Oniță, and JoAnn McCaig.
language
The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi
The Knot of My Tongue: Prose and Poems is a complex and rewarding read that has drawn me back to the poems repeatedly.
IGoli | EGoli: Poems by Salimah Valiani
The meaning of the title IGoli | EGoli: Poems, by Salimah Valiani is not self-evident without a search. What does it mean? eGoli means “Place of Gold”.
Imagining Imagining by Gary Barwin
There is an intimacy to walking with my dog at night”, says Gary Barwin, in this small book of wonder tales.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now.
Undoing Hours by Selina Boan
Selina Boan’s Undoing Hours foregrounds play with linguistics and poetics to explore liminalities of identity and family in the context of a half-Cree, half-white settler speaker.
