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Otremba’s are poems of rigorous looking. In most, a speaker coolly observes a work of art, a person or animal, the poems’ tensions emerging in part from the speaker’s struggle for knowledge and connection. …more
Like the Jazz, Blues, and R&B music Brown references, these poems are born of heartbreak, explorations of love and violence, connections and disconnections, the vast complications of body and heart. …more
Using the American West as its central conceit, Cecily Parks’ debut volume, Field Folly Snow, explores the shifting intersections of fear, desire, geography, and history. …more
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