Mapping the Interior by Proceeding through the Exterior in “A Flat Place” – Chicago Review of Books

Mapping the Interior by Proceeding through the Exterior in “A Flat Place” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Memoirs have sometimes been considered a form of fiction, not as false accounts but by being enriched with the layering of symbols, place, and affable narration. Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma picks up these tools and employs them to full effect, as she takes the reader further … Read more

Mapping Past and Present Pain in Brian Tierney’s “Rise and Float” – Chicago Review of Books

Mapping Past and Present Pain in Brian Tierney’s “Rise and Float” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Selected by Randall Mann as the winner of the 2020-21 Jake Adam York Poetry Prize, Brian Tierney’s debut collection, Rise and Float, is nothing short of exquisite. Laid bare in these pages is a map of holes that reveal pain and death, as the question of whether or not to continue on in the … Read more