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The Heavenly Table, by Donald Ray Pollock. Doubleday, 2016. $28, 365 pages.

Donald Ray Pollock’s second novel, The Heavenly Table, delivers a jolt of the barbed wire and broken toothed countryside mayhem that readers familiar with his …

Incorrect Merciful Impulses, by Camille Rankine. Copper Canyon Press, 2016. $16, 80 pages.

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the neo-conceptual artist, Jenny Holzer, created several series of posters and broadsheets, consisting entirely of …

dear girl: a reckoning, by Drea Brown. Gold Line Press, 2015. $10, 48 pages.

Whose silken fetters all the senses bind

—Phillis Wheatley (from “On Imagination”)

Drea Brown’s chapbook, dear girl: a reckoning, renders a vivid, wracked, and delirious …