Thank you to The Malahat Review for the review of Em Dial’s In the Key of Decay in Issue 229 | Winter. The reviewer was Paul DB Watkins – thanks, Paul!

Here’s a pull-quote from the review…

“An epigraph serves as a kind of opening, and the choice to begin the book with June Jordan is revealing: “help me / turn the face of history / to your face.” This line, drawn from Jordan’s “Getting Down to Get Over,” encapsulates many of Jordan’s central concerns— historical injustice, resistance, personal empowerment—culminating in a call to action and a reclamation of history by marginalized voices within broader struggles for justice…”

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