Chimera, Chimera: A Review of Willie Lee Kinard III’s Orders of Service

The Cincinnati Review; 2024

CR Editor’s Note: In a new effort for our site, we plan to publish occasional reviews that go beyond a recitation of a book’s “pros and cons.” (FYI, we are not accepting submissions for this series yet). Here’s our first, by a contributor to both our miCRo series and our review feature in the Issue 18.2 feature on joy, hope, and delight: Daniella Toosie-Watson.

A Findable veil: Joy and Hope in Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind

Review of Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), which appeared in Issue 18.2 of The Cincinnati Review as part of a special multi-genre review feature on joy, hope, and delight.