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Katie Berta
“Places To Lie Down and Signify”: Diana Marie Delgado’s Accumulative VerseTracing the Horse, by Diana Marie Delgado. BOA Editions 112 pp., $17.00. “Most nights I’m face to face with the stars. / No one is more afraid of this than … Read the rest
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C.J.A.
Things of ValueA review of four new books by C.J.A. “In my recent reading practice, I have been paying almost obsessive attention to the word thing …”
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Bruce Snider
Sestinamerica: Poetic Form in the Age of TrumpBruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections: Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press (2020); Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013); and The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin, 2003).
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Marginalia: G.C. Waldrep on Jane Gregory & Friederike Mayröcker
Yeah No, by Jane Gregory. The Song Cave, 112 pp., $17.95.Scardanelli, by Friederike Mayröcker. The Song Cave, 72 pp., $17.95. The Song Cave made its small-press debut … Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
American Originality, in Three DebutsCorey Van Landingham, a contributing editor, is the author of Antidote and the recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she currently teaches at the University of Illinois and is a book review editor for Kenyon Review.
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Kylan Rice
Lyric Concord: On Political PoetryThe Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance, by Philip Metres. University of Michigan Press, 216 pp., $29.95. Someone Shot My Book, by Julie Carr. University of Michigan … Read the rest
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Kathryn Nuernberger
The Poetics (and Politics) of SpellsAscend, Ascend, by Janaka Stucky. Third Man Books, 88 pp., $17.95A Sand Book, by Ariana Reines. Tin House Books, 323 pp., $24.95Without Protection, by Gala … Read the rest
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Gabriel Palacios
Just Dangling:Michael Earl Craig and the Art of Defusing a Poem Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, by Michael Earl Craig. Wave Books, 122 pp., $22. Two years ago at the AWP book … Read the rest
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
On Alice Oswald’s Dart, edited by Shara Lessley, featuring Niall Munro, Aria Misher Aber and Yvonne Reddick.
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Our Kind Multiplies: Duality and the Lyric
Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry Double Portrait, by Brittany Perham. W.W. Norton & Company, 80 pp., $26.95. Witch Wife, by Kiki Petrosino. Sarabande, 60 pp., … Read the rest
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