Author Archives: Shira Dentz

“It is emotionally complex and riveting despite its detachment. It complicates the label of confessional poetry or memoir with its formal agility and its conceptual demands of its reader. It is a welcome addition to those books that teach us … Continue reading →

“I am grateful the poet created this book.” Read full review by Eileen Tabios

“Perhaps we need a new genre to define Dentz’s work: autobio-poetics, for example, work that mines intense (in this case, devastating) personal experience through hybrid forms for its lyric potential and narrative exigencies creating a text that is part memoir/part … Continue reading →

Megan Burns reviews door of thin skins: “Poetry is fiction that is born from truth…” //  “What unlocks the unlocked voice? Can it be simply said or is the space that poetry inhabits, a space that teaches us to see … Continue reading →

Organizational principles. Shira Dentz’s door of thin skins has a few. Persona. Metaphor. Hearts. Birds. Diagrams. What Dentz does so well in this collection is to connect then turn inside-out these organizations. Nicole Walker reviews door of thin skins here

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 to enact damage, trauma and the mind’s desperate attempt … Continue reading →

door of thin skins is reviewed by Jane L. Carman in the current issue of American Book Review, Sex Writing, edited by Cris Mazza. Project MUSE – Triple Shot

The text contracts, jumps, exceeds the margins of a conventional page, stretching as long as Dr. Abe’s legendary, menacing hands. Dentz uses typography to portray the split between the speaker’s experience and her reach for language to articulate it, such … Continue reading →

Part poetry, part prose, Shira Dentz’s latest collection breaks apart expectations of form and language, resisting category at every turn. Read Kay Cosgrove’s review of door of thin skins in Green Mountain Review here

Notes for an Interdisciplinary Syllabus: Critical Views on Violence, Non-violence [Works by Carr, Das, Kapil, Dentz, King, Estevez, Margulis, McPhee, Fitterman, Farrow, Snyder]