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Reviewer Lisa Folkmire won Ann Arbor’s Current Magazine 2017 Poetry Contest with her poem “First Wolf.” She earned her MFA in Writing (poetry) from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared in Alegrarse, Okay Donkey, The Mantle, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Barren Magazine, Occulum, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry , among others.
Sometimes a memoir encapsulates an author’s life so well that it seems to have its own pulse. The Part That Burns is no exception. Jeannine Ouellette tells her story through a series of fragments. What’s possibly most unique about the novel is that Ouellette structured the memoir so that the fragments fold in on themselves, almost as if Ouellette’s memoir is a conversation with different versions of herself through different parts of her life, checking and rechecking on what each experience meant in her lif