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Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue by Alicia Rebecca Myers, Kate Bernheimer, Elise Winn, Rebecca Wolff, Kellie Wells, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Monica Drake, Elizabeth Gross, Lenny Dellarocca, Majda Gama, Claire Cronin, Helen Phillips, Mary Lavallee, Molly Faerber, Lucas Church, Mai Der Vang, Rachel Zavecz, Emily Temple, Tim Raymond, Thomas Mira y Lopez, Wyatt Bonikowski, Richard Siken, Elizabeth Frankie Rollins, Traci Brimhall, Christian Rees, Emma Bolden, Christina Kloess, Caleb Washburn, Matt Bell, Kirsten Holt

pearseanderson's review

4.0

For two hundred pages, a lot happened. Again, I like stuff like this. Not only is the entire series themed, but the individual issues are themed! This is like picking up a gothic mag themed around high-society Russia, or an essay collection about bad trips. The latter is a real one, the former should be a real one. Anyway, kinda confused what the Mauve theme is. Still fun! Still four stars. Definitively POETRY poetry, y'know? And I wasn't amazed by the contest winners, or the opening Matt Bell (:( Scrapper will be better probably), or actually quite a few of the stories, but this little book had some winners: Binnoire, The Peach Boy, One of Us Will Be Happy; It's Just a Matter of Which One, All Our Children, the Seeking Rubilio excerpt, and Olive. So that's a lot of them. So I'm happy. Thanks!