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Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Steve Almond
All the Secrets of the World, by Steve Almond. Zando Projects, 416 ppl, $28. For twenty years, Steve Almond has enjoyed a widely-lauded career as a writer of short … Read the rest
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Esteban Rodríguez
No Longer the BystanderWhy the Assembly Disbanded, by Roberto Tejada. Fordham University Press, 88 pp., $16.95.instrumentation for distributed empathy monetization, by William Lessard. Kernpunkt Press, 40 pp., $14.95. Winter Phoenix,… Read the rest
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Four Takes: Devon Walker-Figueroa’s PHILOMATH
“In the hands of Walker-Figueroa … enjambment is not just a craft technique—hers is an existential enjambment.”
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Laura Villareal
Mythmaking in Three DebutsSwallowed Light, by Michael Wasson. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $17. Philomath, by Devin Walker-Figueroa. Milkweed Editions, 104 pp., $16. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, by C.T. Salazar. … Read the rest
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Shara Lessley
One Vast Shadow: The Poetry of (Self)PerspectiveBrocken Spectre, by Jacques Rancourt. Alice James Books, 100 pp., $18.95.West Portal, by Benjamin Gucciardi. Unviersity of Utah Press, 64 pp., $14.95.The Curious Thing, by Sandra … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kyrie’s sonnets aren’t only in conversation with historical events … but with the history of verse itself.”
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Survival Songs
By David Roderick Oh You Robot Saints!, by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 96 pp., $15.95.Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez. BOA Editions, 122 … Read the rest
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Marginalia: Chet’la Sebree, Andrew Ciotola, Ron Tanner, G.C. Waldrep
The Sum of Trifles, by Julia Ridley Smith. University of Georgia Press, 238 pp., $22.95. Julia Ridley Smith’s memoir-in-essays, The Sum of Trifles, begins with an invitation from her … Read the rest
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Katie Berta
“A Knife Housed in Glass”: Grief and Art in Victoria ChangOBIT, by Victoria Chang. Copper Canyon Press, 120 pp., $17 In her newest poetry collection, OBIT, Victoria Chang quotes John Updike, who wrote, “Each day, we wake slightly altered, … Read the rest
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Esteban Rodríguez
In Praise of HerenessTwice Alive, by Forrest Gander. New Directions, 96 pp., $16.95.Strip, by Jessica Abughattas. University of Arkansas Press, 75 pp., $16.95.I Thought There Would Be More Wolves… Read the rest
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