Books We've Reviewed from Ohio State University Press

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Midland

In his new collection of poems, Dawes flawlessly weaves in settings and events from the American South, Africa, the Caribbean, and England. Weighing loss against experience, a... Read More

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Nostos

In a literary world often inundated with the banal, readers will cherish these poems for their fine sophistication. Pellizon, who won the prestigious Hollis Summers Poetry Prize... Read More

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Captivity Narrative

In Samyn’s prefatory note to Captivity Narrative, she explains that the structure of the text, “is based on early American “captivity narratives,” accounts of frontier... Read More

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Down on Parchman Farm

In the early 1970s, a series of federal court orders led to the dismantling of Parchman Farm, a prison as legendary—even notorious— as Alcatraz and Sing-Sing. The demise of... Read More

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