RaveForeword ReviewsMoving ... What makes the novel exceptional is not only the delicate and healing relationship that begins to form between Iris and Dorota, but also the portrayal of the husband’s psychological abuse and narcissism ... Subtle ... Startling portrayals of womanhood and contemporary gender imbalances make Eternal Summer an emotional, powerful novel.
Tiana Clark
RaveFull Stop... it juxtaposes poems that suggest autobiographical narrative against lyrical and persona poetry ... It often feels like a Russian doll, a box within a box that helps the poet push its polyvocal ends towards harmony ... a window where a reader could glimpse some of the complexity and interiority of one moment of black experience, rendered here as constant moral contradiction ... The framing device affords the writer and speaker a directness that I often find difficult to plant in contemporary poetry without sounding self-indulgent ... There is a rare but certain effect I find almost exclusively in the best of poetry — where reading and hearing what is read, literally quickens the reader’s pulse — and this is the experience that found me in Tiana Clark’s debut.
