The reader gets to hear from the Lone Survivor of the atrocity, but also the tailors, architects, engineers and claims adjusters who must attend to the life of the survivor...
The Tales Reviewed at Roaming Cowgirl
The reader gets to hear from the Lone Survivor of the atrocity, but also the tailors, architects, engineers and claims adjusters who must attend to the life of the survivor...
The Tales reviewed at Coldfront
Words linger and echo in the white space of the page, allowing readers to participate in the reconstruction of a destroyed world by filling in the gaps themselves...
The Tales reviewed at The Volta
Not as much the sequence of events being told as the action of telling them...
The Tales listed as The Believer readers’ favorite
The Believer's 2013 Readers' list includes works by writers such as Bozek, Saunders, Rasmussen, Adichie, and Greer fig...
Jessica Bozek interviewed at AMRI
I think that the poems talk around each other...
The Tales reviewed at Lemon Hound
A genre that both accommodates a dystopian consciousness and gives form to the voices, human and non-human, usually unheard...
The Tales reviewed at Zyzzyva
By defamiliarizing the place we live, The Tales makes us aware just how dystopian it really is...
The Tales reviewed at decomP magazinE
The disaster cannot be known. We can only approach its edges...
The Tales, Best Of 2013
Haunting, in the way of books that depict the present moment almost too well...
The Tales reviewed at Washington Ind. Review of Books
Bozek trusts us. She knows the poem begins in us when her poem ends...
The Tales Reviewed at HTMLGIANT
But then, again: it doesn’t sound as good when you try to explain it...
The Tales and For Want and Sound Listed at The Volta
A non-hierarchical and non-exhaustive list...