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DRUNK MONKEYS IS A Literary Magazine and Film Blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more

Editor-in-chief KOLLEEN CARNEY-HOEPFNEr

managing editor

chris pruitt

founding editor matthew guerrero

100 WORD BOOK REVIEWS / The Mercy of Traffic by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

100 WORD BOOK REVIEWS / The Mercy of Traffic by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

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The history, deep south surroundings, and personal convictions of poet Wendy Taylor Carlisle are a collective wonder to behold. In her latest book The Mercy of Traffic, Carlisle offers a slew of poems that not only create a compelling biographical piece, but also a rather unflinching look at childhood. The way Carlisle discusses childhood in particular is one of the book’s greatest strengths. In the way she approaches poems such as “Like a Tide” and “Driving Toward Houston”, it is clear that these pieces go deeper than simply remembering an event. Everything is up to deconstruction here. Everything carries a voice that has much to say about the present, in addition to the past.

Gabriel Ricard, Staff Writer


100 WORD BOOK REVIEWS / Dawn by Kenning Jean-Paul Garcia

100 WORD BOOK REVIEWS / Dawn by Kenning Jean-Paul Garcia

100 WORD BOOK REVIEWS / Searching for Candy: John Candy: A Biography by Tracey J. Morgan

100 WORD BOOK REVIEWS / Searching for Candy: John Candy: A Biography by Tracey J. Morgan

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