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Composing Wonder
by Chelsea Christine Hill The Fears, by Kevin Prufer. Copper Canyon Press, 83 pp., $17.Helen of Troy, 1993, by Maria Zoccola. Scribner Books, 96 pp., $18.A … Read the rest
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The Peculiar Particular
“The three collections I’ve chosen satisfy my desire for specificity. They lean into the peculiar particular and press on the pulse of language that reminds us that there is more wonder to be found in our world. ” Laura Villareal on Emily Stoddard, Karen Rigby, and Brandom Som.
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kelly’s hermetic temperament and fable-like staging feel tethered not to a particular era, but to the larger through-line of lyric poetry. Her engagement with the human and animal world remains as timeless as her interests in moral negotiations and neglect, and the limitations of attentiveness and self-awareness …”
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Humor in Self-Deception
by Thomas Calder Good Women, by by Halle Hill. Hub City Press, 216 pp., $17.95. “Seeking Arrangements,” the opening story in Halle Hill’s debut collection, Good Women, … Read the rest
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“But Something Stayed with Us”: On the Spare
by Corey Van Landingham Cold Thief Place, by Esther Lin. Alice James Books, 65 pp., $24.95.Daywork, by Jessica Fisher. Milkweed Editions, 82 pp., $16. I It is … Read the rest
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To Name and Be Named
by Felicia Zamora The Quiet Practices, by TC Tolbert. Beloit Poetry Journal, 54 pp., $18. The capaciousness of we. TC Tolbert’s newest poetry collection, The Quiet Practices, the … Read the rest
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Additions to the World
“Can art be the nail, hammered into the present, on which the future might be hung? … The three collections reviewed here all have their own answers to such questions.” — Lloyd Wallace
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Lloyd Wallace
Human LimitationsPublic Abstract, by Jane Huffman. American Poetry Review, 196 pp., $16. Jane Huffman’s Public Abstract, selected by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman Award, begins with … Read the rest
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New Art on Old Ground: Irish Women Poets
“In work that is witty, subversive, socially conscious, and distinct, these poets navigate intimate subjects such as childbirth and the shock of motherhood, bereavement, rapture, environmental crisis, queer desire, art-making, and selfhood.”
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George Guida
Away From the FringeDisease of Kings, by Anders Carlson-Wee. W.W. Norton & Co., 112 pp., $26.95. Anders Carlson-Wee has established himself as a poet of contingency. His debut collection, The Low Passions… Read the rest
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