“Primary Lessons” on The Women’s Voice List
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Congrats to Sarah Bracey White!  Primary Lessons was picked as a 2013 “Memoir We Love” by Women’s Voice for Change.
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"door of thin skins" reviewed in Rattle
"The brilliance of door of thin skins lies not only in the narrative, but also in the way Shira Dentz stretches and fractures language, not just to report on damage, but toenact damage,... Read More
"Primary Lessons" reviewed in Southern Literary Review
"And while Primary Lessons is about a young black girl during a time of racial inequality, its themes speak to the child in all of us, and to mothers and daughters of all... Read More
“door of thin skins” reviewed in Diagram
"I think of the words of Richard Rohr, my favorite Catholic priest (after Thomas Merton, of course): pain that’s not transformed is transferred.And this is the triumph of door of thin... Read More
“door of thin skins” reviewed in Green Mountains Review
"The visual rhetoric of the collection records the constant struggle of the narrative: to literally deal with the speaker’s double-vision, and, in the realm of the subconscious, to make composites... Read More
Where the Dead Are reviewed in Literary Mama
"Grounded in straightforward narrative, these poems repeat the process of mourning. Highly accessible yet emotionally fraught, Where the Dead Are acts as a compass with which to navigate loss. Readers can participate... Read More
Tarpaulin Sky Press on “door of thin skins”
“Reading door of thin skins, you will not be able to keep your equilibrium. You will flood with rage, but this rage will be punctuated with displays of dazzling language and... Read More
"door of thin skins" reviewed by HTML Giant
“Dentz’s door of thin skins is a book to be devoured repeatedly. It is an important book from which to learn.”
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Green Mountain reviews "Darkening the Grass"
Miller’s language, here and elsewhere in Darkening the Grass, carries the earnestness and conviction of a maxim. At times it seems he turns to the reader to speak candidly; to live past... Read More