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Beyond Survival, the Grace and Courage to Live: A Woman of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Sonia N. GonzalezSummer 2022, Summer 2022 Reviews

Review by Sonia N. Gonzalez Ships carrying captured and enslaved men, women and children first arrived on the shores of Puerto Rico in the early 1500s, as Spanish colonizers on the island looked to Africa for human labor. A Woman of Endurance, the sophomore novel by Afro-Puerto Rican author Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, opens more than three

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Country of Warm Snow by Mervyn Taylor

Hilary SiderisSummer 2022, Summer 2022 Reviews

Shearsman Books, 2020 Review by Hilary Sideris Mervyn Taylor’s most recent collection of poems is about contrasts and contradictions, as its title, Country of Warm Snow suggests. Taylor, who grew up (and spent the pandemic) in Trinidad, has lived in New York City for many years. He often crafts poems out of conversations, distilling the

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Talking to Strangers by Peter Neil Carroll

Lee RossiSummer 2022, Summer 2022 Reviews

Turning Point Press, 2022 Review by Lee Rossi “What is it then between us?” Walt Whitman asked his readers and, not wanting to keep them in suspense, answered immediately, “Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not.” Poet-historian Peter Neil Carroll might give the same answer. Like Whitman he is fascinated

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It’s About Time, by Barry Wallenstein

Susana H. CaseSummer 2022, Summer 2022 Reviews

New York Quarterly Books February, 2022, 124 pages, $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-63045-082-3 Review by Susana H. Case The pun in the title of Barry Wallenstein’s new and eleventh poetry collection, It’s About Time, is that of impending mortality, the diminution of the number of years left for vital living. “The cornucopia is no longer / overflowing”

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