Review: Human Zoo – A Death Row Poetry Collection
Shop Indie Bookstores Editor Tomothy Moxley spent three years collecting and compiling works of poetry from inmates on death row across the country. His purpose was to show young people in trouble the inner working of inmates on The Row. He wanted kids at risk to see how short the road is from stealing change [...]
Review: Here, Bullet — Brian Turner
Shop Indie Bookstores Here, Bullet by Brian Turner was written during his 2003 – 2004 tour of duty in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Almost every poem is accompanied by the location he wrote it (city, town, FOB, etc.). Turner earned a BFA prior to joining the US Army. He also [...]
Review: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow
Shop Indie Bookstores Dorothy Parker’s Elbow is a collection of fiction and poetry involving tattoos and the stories behind tattoos. In the introduction, editors Addonizio and Dumesnil state, “Behind every tattoo stands a story that people want to hear. Our interest in those stories led to Dorothy Parker’s Elbow.” This collection contains selections by some [...]
Review: Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries from World War I to Iraq
Shop Indie Bookstores Edited by Melanie Challenger and Zlata Filipovic (author of Zlata’s Diary), Stolen Voices is a collection of incredible war diaries written by the children of war. Each editor wrote an introduction for the book explaining their interest in war diaries, their personal connections to them, and they met each other. Folipovic penned [...]
