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2019 New Releases

2019 New Releases

January 2019 The Cotton Breath, an allegorical novella [arts-based research] (Anaphora Literary, 2019) Who owns a life? Roman civil law was the basis for eighteenth century South Carolina slavery legislation, and partus sequitur ventrem meant literally “that which is brought forth follows the womb,” meaning a child was born a slave if the mother was a slave, freeRead more about 2019 New Releases[…]

Landscape at the edge of destruction

Landscape at the edge of destruction

Book Review of William LuvaasWELCOME TO SAINT ANGEL in THE WAGON MAGAZINE

Landscape at the edge of destruction
Reviewed by Robin Throne
What drives us to the edges of self-destruction? Ruin? What facilitates the need to protect a landscape that becomes us? Restores us? To protect a space where we at last find ourselves rooted- it is in this use of absurdity and humor amid a dreadful conflict that illustrates Luvaas’ masterful technique of shifting points of view and uses of shifting dialogues, interior to character-to-character, and gives voice to the landscape that underscores the quick pace of this read… Read more about Landscape at the edge of destruction