![]() ![]() I don’t take pride in this fact I’m not a contrarian. I mention this because I don’t find much in Ilya Kaminsky’s Dancing in Odessa to appreciate, and in that failure, it seems as if I am one of a bare handful of human persons immune to its charms. ![]() It’s a problem: On the one hand, the act of reviewing itself summons recognition of the wider world through which the book moves on the other hand, how much knowledge of the book’s receipt is really useful to a discussion of its content? Am I reviewing the book or am I reviewing its readers? One of the difficulties of reviewing is the unhappy balance between the urge to review a title as if the reviewer’s attention focused solely on the work at handone reader, one writer, a world completeand the compulsion to directly address the context in which the book is received. Bird Lovers, Backyard by Thalia Field.The Cloud Corporation by Timothy Donnelly.The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway by Jennifer L.Hymn for the Black Terrific by Kiki Petrosino. ![]() End of the Sentimental Journey: A Mystery Poem by Sarah Vap.A Small Story About the Sky by Alberto Ríos. ![]()
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