Holli Carrell
Apostasies
Perugia Press, 2025
$20.00
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“Holli Carrell’s pulsating first poetry collection, Apostasies, lifts the veil on growing up Mormon in the United States to expose the seeded brutalities and indoctrinations from organized belief structures that stint and oppress the very fibers of selfhood, girlhood, womanhood, and nonbinary existence. Apostasies boldly interrogates a life under righteous surveillance, under siege by holiness and flockness, and what religious control cultivates in the interior. Carrell’s intimate and experiential poems deconstruct the “myth and figment” of the “American story” of the LDS Church with both a scalpel and an axe—this book is a reckoning.” - Felicia Zamora
rob mclennan
the book of sentences
University of Calgary Press, 2025
$19.99 CAD/US
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Poems read:
“Quartet for an end of landscape, with farmhouse"
“Autobiography"
“Summer, pandemic"
Soundtrack:
Ólafur Arnalds, “A Sunrise Session” (2021)
Beach House, “Thank Your Lucky Stars” (2015)
Brian Eno, “Thursday Afternoon” (1985)
Paula Neves
Passaic
Get Fresh Books, 2025
$20
@itinerantmuse
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Passaic is a collection of poems that reflect on the Passaic, an 80-mile long river coursing through prime New Jersey real estate in counties that run the gamut from affluence to working class. Its lower 17 miles in particular comprise one of the biggest environmental atrocities in the country. Passaic celebrates the complicated legacies of the actual or spiritual descendants of communities who lived and worked along these banks, and continue to be affected by the river's destruction, its fitful, politically charged rehabilitation, climate change, and “economic development.”