Michael Daley reviews HOLY MAGIC by Priscilla Long, winner of the 2020 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award.
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The new collection of Tom Jay’s writing tells us there’s more to his work than we saw in the poems and essays of a dozen years ago. But only a little of that is more recent—instead the book goes back, wider and deeper. To the text it adds context, essential to our understanding of “bioregional” or “place-based” writing. Here it means a half century of life and community on the eastern slope of the Olympic Peninsula.
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“Arriving in time for this election season is a vital anthology of poems, stories, and art from Raven Chronicles that directly responds to the hatred inflamed by the racist, incompetent, narcissist currently munching “hamberders” and tweeting twaddle from the Oval Office while crises rage. I spoke to Anna Bálint, one of the editors of Take a Stand: Art Against Hate about the inspiration, or perhaps provocation, for compiling the anthology. “
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