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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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Leslie Sainz
What Breaks ThroughFour Collections on Awe A Common Name for Everything, by Sarah Wolfson. Green Writers Press, 80 pp., $14.95. Stray Harbor, by Rage Hezekiah. Finishing Line Press, 71 pp., … Read the rest
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Christian Detisch
American ElegiesSummer Snow, by Robert Hass. Ecco, 192 pp., $16.99. American Faith, by Maya C. Popa. Sarabande Books, 96 pp., $15.95. In the Lateness of the World, by … Read the rest
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Kathryn Nuernberger
Building an Archive of Earth and Water“I have seen how a person who tells a story of racism carelessly only reinscribes it in the present. I have seen how ignoring the story altogether, as if the crime never happened, also carries it into the future.”
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Jordan Charlton
Naming, Silencing, Surviving“It doesn’t take a reader long to be captured by Romeo Oriogun’s compelling voice, a voice which seems equal parts observer, prophet, and reformer …”
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Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Carter Sickles
The Prettiest Star, by Carter Sickles. Hub City Press, 288 pp., $26.00. Carter Sickels’s second novel, The Prettiest Star, returns the reader to 1986, as the AIDs crisis … Read the rest
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