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The Naomi Letters: A Review
by MARY SIMS Credit: BOA Editions Rachel Mennies, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021). Rachel Mennies’ The Naomi Letters opens with a question, an invitation to devotion: “The love poets say...
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by George Singleton My father left me with two pillowcases of dimes and nickels, separated. He left a note atop the bags, stashed in the back of a tool shed, saying he started saving when I was born,...
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Bewilderness: A Review
by BEE GRAY-ARMY Bewilderness, Karen Tucker, 2021, 288 p. In our current moment, addiction is as familiar to most Americans as a regularly scheduled television program. In fact, 22 million people are...
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Syncopated Sensibility: Review of Sevastopol
by CELIA LEGBAND HAWLEY Sevastopol, Emilio Fraia, New Directions Publishing, 2021. Possibly the best advice I can give you about reading Emilio Fraia’s 2018 novel Sevastopol is: Do not let your first...
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by Jake Slovis We heard about RealityCheck from Anne and Tom. They said it had really worked for them, that since they’d started playing, they hadn’t fought once. The evidence of their success was...
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Indigo: A Review
by ELLIE RAMBO Credit: Catapult Books Padgett Powell, Indigo (Catapult, 2021), pp. 223. If I were to start the review of this book the way many of the essays within it begin, I would open with a...
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by Erin Blue Burke Her pool is a private one, a gated community of exercise, and everyone who sees her swimming back and forth from end to end knows she wants to be left alone. Many of them have had...
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“History / And Fear”: A Review of Sleeping as Fast as I Can by Richard Michelson
by KYLAN RICE Credit: Slant Books Richard Michelson, Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant, 2023), pp. 88. In Negative Dialectics, Theodor Adorno tempered his often-quoted claim that it’s “barbaric” to...
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A Long Time to Be Gone: A Review
by KYLAN RICE Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Press Michael McFee, A Long Time To Be Gone (Carnegie Mellon, 2022), pp. 72. In a notebook from the 1930s, Robert Frost wrote out a recollected line...
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Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action: A Review
by KYLAN RICE Credit: Partly Press Jordan Dunn, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press, 2022), pp. 84. In a chapter on the lumber industry in Man and Nature, Or, Physical...
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Everything Awake: A Review
by COLIN DEKEERSGIETER Credit: Shearsman Books Sasha Steensen, Everything Awake (Shearsman Books, 2020), pp.90. Sasha Steensen’s Everything Awake is a poetry driven by the vertigo of life’s work,...
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