Cultivating Delight and Meaning with Ross Gay in “Inciting Joy” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsOctober 28, 2022 by Mandana Chaffa Like Facebook TwitterRoss Gay’s eloquence as a poet is matched by his fluency as an essayist, and over the last half dozen years his focus on the … Read More
Uncompromising Black Joy in “Open Water” – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsApril 27, 2021 by Shazia Hafiz Ramji Like Facebook TwitterOpen Water, the debut novel by Caleb Azumah Nelson, begins when a barber notices the unnamed protagonist exchanging gazes in the mirror with a woman … Read More
Joy Harjo on the Power of Poetry, and on Building a Comprehensive Canon of Indigenous Poems – Chicago Review of Books Categories Book ReviewsOctober 16, 2020 by Clancey D'Isa Like Facebook Twitter“It is poetry that holds the songs of becoming, of change, of dreaming, and it is poetry we turn to when we travel those places … Read More