
To Be Named Something Else Reviewed in the Colorado Review
“Winning first place of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize hardly seems enough. This book changes the game.”
“Winning first place of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize hardly seems enough. This book changes the game.”
“…what’s striking in this book is the precision with which disorder is made legible.”
“provides novel insights into the history of Black working-class activism and racial capitalism in the early twentieth century and the postwar period in the Mississippi Delta.”
“A wonderful, rewarding family memoir that will resonate both for elder veterans of the sixties and seventies ‘back to the land’ counter culture.”
David Woo Recommends Saba Keramati, Justin Rovillos Monson, Robert Pinsky, and Others.
“Cochran brings to light both the sidelong historical ruminations and the sorrowful depths of feeling that admirers have always sensed moving beneath the picaresque plots and the insouciant breezes of Portis’s prose.”