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I wanted to kiss this book when I finished it because VONA writers are so talented, and I was chosen for VONA so that means I'm talented, too. :D
3.5 stars.Deeply appreciated.
Potent work from VONA retreat; voices that unfortunately don't get heard enough in our literary landscape. Thank you to VONA for supporting and getting these voices and perspectives into our hands.
A collection of 93 essays, short stories, and poems by alumni of the VONA/Voices writing workshop, providing a sampling of perspectives from a wide variety of situations in the experiencing of human existence in our time.Of these I found exceptionally impactful the following: “My White Wife” by Adam Balm; “Painting a Body of Loss and Love in the Proximity of an Aesthetic” by Chris Abani; “Apo Baket” by Amalia Bueno; “Oversoul” by Mitchell S. Jackson; “Dissection” by Roopa Ramamoorthi; “The Sound...