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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]

in HTML Giant: The retina is brain tissue that lines the inner surface of the eye, captures images of the visual world, and communicates them to the brain. continue reading here…  

in Tarpaulin Sky! Shira Dentz’s hybrid poetry/prose memoir, door of thin skins, opens on a scene with Dr. Abe in his “watering hole,” the New York penthouse apartment-turned-office where the 60-year-old psychotherapist sees city patients. Here, too, we are introduced … Continue reading →

in The Blind Chatelaine’s Keys: DOOR OF THIN SKINS, poems by Shira Dentz (poems which as a sum (as a collection) is more than its parts (individual poems). Good example—an urgent motivation—as to why poetry should be more than verse. … Continue reading →

PEPPER LUBOFF interviews me about door of thin skins in July’s OmniVerse (Omnidawn Publishing’s blog) here:

Check out the newest issue of DB’s review section including my audio interview with Cole Swensen here! The 39 reviews presented here discuss 45 books and are in conversation with ongoing conversations both within and without the literary community at-large, … Continue reading →