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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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Corey Van Landingham
Stepping onto the Stage: Ambition and Risk in Three DebutsAll Heathens, by Marianne Chan. Sarabande Books, 74 pp., $15.95.Field Music, by Alexandria Hall. Ecco, 77 pp., $16.99.Bodega, by Su Hwang. Milkweed Editions, 94 … Read the rest
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Christian Detisch
Private Poems, Public Language; Public Poems, Private LanguageA Better Place Is Hard To Find, by Aaron Fagan. The Song Cave 84 pp., $17.95 Un-American, by Hafizah Geter, Wesleyan University Press, 104 pp., $10.78. Blizzard, by … Read the rest
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Kylan Rice
Against ParadiseBlack Sun, by Toby Martinez de las Rivas. Faber & Faber, 72 pp., $15.92. The Glass Constellation, by Arthur Sze. Copper Canyon, 562 pp., $35. Earth is Best, by Peter … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
Ai’s Killing Floor (1979) Edited by Shara Lessley I first read Ai’s poetry as an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine—or, rather, it read me. Read into my conscience, … Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
Spectral FeelingsScope and Scale in Three New Books Foreign Bodies, by Kimiko Hahn. W.W. Norton & Co., 109 pp., $26.95. The Book of Jane, by Jennifer Habel. University of … Read the rest
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