Finding Freedom and Connection in “absolute animal” – Chicago Review of Books

Finding Freedom and Connection in “absolute animal” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Writer and professor Rachel DeWoskin’s second poetry collection, absolute animal, subtly exposes the thin line separating humans from other living things, those inarguable similarities to the earth and how they lead us to long for its connection. She has a way of questioning and erasing the distance we insist is there. We are, simply, … Read more

An Ever-Ending Story in “Absolute Music” – Chicago Review of Books

An Ever-Ending Story in “Absolute Music” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Is the world of our everyday reality the only world we live in, and the realest one we can apprehend? For McPhail, the protagonist of Jonathan Geltner’s novel Absolute Music, the world of fantasy—“the other world that has no name or too many names,” a “world behind the world”—is not only real but all … Read more