{"id":41,"date":"2015-08-08T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinacook.us\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:05:43","slug":"book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christinacook.us\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinacook.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN1081_21.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinacook.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN1081_21.jpg?resize=300%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DSCN1081_2\" class=\"wp-image-155\" style=\"width:609px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinacook.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN1081_21.jpg?resize=300%2C268&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christinacook.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN1081_21.jpg?w=978&amp;ssl=1 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <em>ABZ Press: <\/em>Salt<em><br> Arsenic Lobster: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/arseniclobster.magere.com\/archive\/issuenineteen\/190201.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stonetown<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/arseniclobster.magere.com\/archive\/issuenineteen\/190203.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threads of a Past Life<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/arseniclobster.magere.com\/archive\/issuenineteen\/190202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the Night of her Wake<\/a><br> <em>Barn Owl Review:<\/em> Mixed Media<br> <em>Blood Orange Review:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodorangereview.com\/v6-3\/cook_just.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Last Week<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodorangereview.com\/v6-3\/cook_departure.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Departure<\/a><br> <em>Bloodroot Magazine:<\/em> Whaler<br> <em>Breakwater Review:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakwaterreview.com\/7\/street-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Street Music<\/a><em><br> Buckle &amp;<\/em>: Penelope; Zoetrope<br> <em>Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press: <\/em>Alternate Past (forthcoming)<br> <em>Cave Wall Press:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nh.gov\/nharts\/artsandartists\/pdf\/nightcrawlers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nightcrawlers<\/a>; Towards a Music, Charmed; Suite of Summer Letters<br> <em>Cerise Press:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerisepress.com\/02\/04\/gathering-gods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gathering Gods<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerisepress.com\/02\/04\/lake-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake Effect<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerisepress.com\/04\/10\/roe-fallow-and-red-deer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roe Fallow and Red Deer<\/a><br> <em>Cider Press Review:<\/em> And So This<br> <em>Cimarron Review: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cimarronreview.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/cook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Messier 31<\/a><br> <em>Conte:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conteonline.net\/issue0801\/p05.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tacoma Apothecary<\/a>&nbsp;(audio)<br> <em>Crab Orchard Review:<\/em> Starling<br> <em>Crazyhorse<\/em>: A Graveyard up through Which Woods Have Grown<br> <em>DIAGRAM:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/thediagram.com\/12_5\/cook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloodletting<\/a><br> <em>Dos Passos Review<\/em>: A Night in Fenwick<br> <em>E-Verse Radio<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everseradio.com\/all-night-t-v-by-christina-cook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All-night T.V.<\/a><br> <em>Fringe<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/sundresspublications.com\/fringe\/lit\/poetry\/21st-century-sappho-and-two-more-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Sappho; Deer Leg in a Tree; Gull Body on the Beach<\/a><br> <em>Front Porch Journal<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchjournal.com\/issue80_poetry_cook.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solo for the Flute; Voice in the Reeds<\/a><br> <em>Grist, The Journal for Writers:<\/em> Summer Requiem<br> <em>Harpur Palate:<\/em> Blind Minotaur Guided by a Young Girl<br> <em>Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/em>: Burlesque Acoustic; Blue, Orange, Red<br> <em>Inch:<\/em>&nbsp;Sea Shards<br> <em>Inertia Magazine:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inertiamagazine.com\/issues\/005\/cook.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricochet<\/a><br> <em>Interpoezia:<\/em>&nbsp;Radio Zagreb<br> <em>Lunarosity<\/em>: Backyard Constellation<br> <em>Matter Press:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/matterpress.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/12\/dory\/#more-1425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dory<\/a><br> <em>New Ohio Review:<\/em> Opening the Cottage<br> <em>Nimrod International Journal<\/em>: Dinner Party<br> <em>Painted Bride Quarterly:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/pbqmag.org\/christina-cook-doing-the-dishes\/\">Doing the Dishes<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/pbqmag.org\/christina-cook-every-ounce-of-its-corpse-unstable\/\">Every Ounce of its Corpse Unstable<\/a><br> <em>Poemeleon: <\/em>Djembe Drum<br> <em>Presence: A Journal of Spiritual Direction: <\/em>Graft<br> <em>Qarrtsiluni<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/qarrtsiluni.com\/2013\/04\/26\/a-night-in-new-york\/\">A Night in New York<\/a>&nbsp;(audio)<br> <em>Silk Road Review:<\/em>&nbsp;On the Hill, Music<br> <em>Symbiosis: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html#8682124\/35812302\">Dwelling of Stone<\/a><br> <em>Soli\/dus: <\/em>Notes on a Summer Storm; In the Far Back Window; Thaw; Summer Music School,&nbsp;Kiss Redux; Selling Books <br>                      Under Waterloo Bridge; Blue Nude<br> <em>Sojourn<\/em>: Master of the Vyssi Brod Altar<br> <em>Sugar Mule: <\/em>April Elegy; Lapwing; Six am<br> <em>Survivor\u2019s Review:<\/em> Indian Pudding<br> <em>The Baltimore Review:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimorereview.org\/index.php\/spring_2012\/contributor\/christina-cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homing<\/a><br> <em>The Bitter Oleander:<\/em> Changing Hands<br> <em>The Midwest Quarterly:<\/em> Common Knowledge<br> <em>The Other Journal:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/theotherjournal.com\/2009\/02\/03\/tomatoes-of-kobarid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tomatoes of Kobarid<\/a><br> <em>The Swamp<\/em>: And So On; 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