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Underscore by Julie Carr

Isabel Beeman — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:02:24 +0000

Underscore by Julie Carr Isabel Beeman Mon, 05/05/2025 - 16:02

“Ask me / for a book of doors that open all at once.” Underscore manifests, stunningly, a movement back and forth — flowing, shuttling, plunging, leaping, folding — between forms of attention and feeling, both delicate and strong, both intricate and vast. One encounters moving focal points in flashes of particularity, and large, elliptical orbits of unified emotional, thematic, political, and conceptual concern. “Out there there are / fragments of voice not yet settled / to ash.” Here are lines of astonishing lucidity, and yet a deep mystery lingers. And here also is great intimacy, not only on the stage of loss, within its framework and lived experience, but also toward precise people and places, lovingly, in affection, attachment, invocation, and elegy. “And to know the sadness is to know the flame.” There is an incredible, beautiful strangeness in this fluid architecture, impossible to pin down, always ebbing and never at rest: “Like / silence spawning music.”

Kevin Holden, author of Pink Noise

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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Isabel Beeman — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:15:18 +0000

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Isabel Beeman Wed, 04/16/2025 - 18:15

"The best yet from one of the best in the business. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, one's place in the world, what's right and what's wrong. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth, freezing cold, and even some slashing. In other words, the book is made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and, in turn, everything the rest of us want to explore with him."

—Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake.

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Archon / After by Ruth Ellen Kocher

Isabel Beeman — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:09:15 +0000

Archon / After by Ruth Ellen Kocher Isabel Beeman Wed, 04/09/2025 - 12:09

"In her frankly feminist ninth collection, Kocher (godhouse) dissects the dangers beneath the male gaze, the specter of which shadows women everywhere...These whip-smart and evocative poems derive meaning from both the darkness and the light, drawing readers in with a beguiling intimacy."

-Publishers Weekly

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Ire Land by Elisabeth Sheffield

Isabel Beeman — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:16:17 +0000

Ire Land by Elisabeth Sheffield Isabel Beeman Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:16

“Elisabeth Sheffield’s Ire Land is an exquisite construction—as sly as Nabokov, as tender as Beckett, deeply intelligent and run through with heart and dark hilarity and great waves of rage and beauty. It possesses an undeniable cumulative power and a level of invention that is both thrilling and poignant.”
-Carole Maso

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