“The Oddest Knock”: A Review of Kay Ryan’s THE NIAGARA RIVER

Published in February 8th, 2009
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Ryan, Kay. The Niagara River. Grove Press Poetry Series, 2005. 72 pp. $13.00 (paper). [View title on Goodreads.com] Reviewed by Marcela Malek Sulak The work of the contemporary lyricist may be that of ordering the chaos that swirls around the shell-shocked I.  But Kay Ryan’s long, thin poems are the tempest’s very stir sticks.  And [...]

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Hidden from History: A Review of Afua Cooper’s THE HANGING OF ANGELIQUE

Published in February 8th, 2009
Posted by editor in Literature Reviews, Non-Fiction
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Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. 349 pp. $22.95 (paper). [View title on Goodreads.com] Reviewed by Reginald Harris Poet and historian Afua Cooper’s compelling The Hanging of Angélique recreates and interrogates the story of the enslaved Afro-Portuguese [...]

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