The Carolina Quarterly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif AbdurraqibTHEY CAN'T KILL US UNTIL THEY KILL US by Hanif Abdurrabqib - Carly Schnitzler, Reviews Editor. "The final essay in music critic and poet's Hanif Abdurrabqib's collection is entitled "Surviving on Small Joys," which is exactly what I'm doing this November." /2
Hardcover, 2022
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kindred
Octavia ButlerKINDRED by Octavia E. Butler - @cal_olsen, Poetry Editor "I'm still amazed at how on-board I am with the premise of the book--Butler dives right in on this one, and I am here for it." 5/5 https://t.co/H9DjntDhg4
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mama Day
Gloria Naylor@NimrodJournal Willow Springs from Gloria Naylor’s MAMA DAY
Paperback, 1989
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Glory and Its Litany of Horrors
Fernanda TorresNew #bookreview "Take it all a little less seriously, the novel seems to say." - Anvita Budhraja Read the full review of GLORY AND ITS LITANY OF HORRORS here: https://t.co/b87KRfPSf0. https://t.co/G4e056HWBF
Paperback, 2019
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life
Destiny HemphillDEBUT DESTINY HEMPHILL COLLECTION DROPS TOMORROW!!!! Get ready for Destiny Hemphill's new poetry collection, MOTHERWORLD: A DEVOTIONAL FOR THE ALTER-LIFE, with these quotes from her poetry in The Carolina Quarterly Volume 69.3! Preorder with @action__books https://t.co/FyXLjxMiTE
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Speech
Jill Magi"Reading Jill Magi’s newest poetry collection SPEECH is like going for a walk inside someone else’s dream." - Hunter Augeri 💭 Peruse Augeri's full review of Jill Magi's SPEECH here: https://t.co/TRPUtugeYc. 📸: @nightboatbooks https://t.co/v4pCHydwKR
Paperback, 2019
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sugar Run
Mesha Maren"SUGAR RUN does more than run the course of a tenacious hard-luck story. Maren crafts a work which is vigorous, exciting, and original." - Brendan Chambers Read the full review of @MeshaMaren's SUGAR RUN here: https://t.co/EnhCrSJTAP. https://t.co/AVs2LY1IsP
Paperback, 2019
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stubborn Archivist
Yara Rodrigues Fowler📕 New Review "She leaves us with a dance that moves us back and forth between England and Brazil, colonialism and postcolonialism, girlhood and womanhood, and trauma and healing." - Geovani Ramírez on Yara Rodrigues Fowler's Stubborn Archivist Read on: https://t.co/l4se2D9kqb. https://t.co/L2JPwbSnS0
Paperback, 2019
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Smoking the Bible
Chris AbaniWe love this celebration of poetry and beautiful language in Boatemaa Agyeman-Mensah's review of Chris Abani's 2022 poetry collection SMOKING THE BIBLE from Volume 71.3! https://t.co/P8mAk53XCR
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Skin Memory
John Sibley Williams📕 New Poetry Review "Skin Memory persuasively examines personal tragedy to provoke readers to question the interactions between nature and human invention." - Nikki Roulo on John Sibley Williams' Skin Memory Read the full review: https://t.co/0AKNJa72MO. https://t.co/rX98B2WCR0
Paperback, 2019
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book