All posts by Dawn Trook

November 13th, 2009

Accomplices in Her Accomplishment

intruder-mediumAs much as Intruder makes us look at the difficult, the painful, the ugly, it also gives us a chance to watch the insides of a snow globe swirl, to enjoy beauty in all its victory, through images, rhythms and dreamscapes, for moments, throughout these pages.

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July 11th, 2009

Beautiful Horrible

if-birds-gather“I like to see the most aggressive of [horror movies]—Dawn of the Dead, for instance—as lifting a trap door in the civilized forebrain and throwing a basket of raw meat to the hungry alligators …more

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April 20th, 2009

Through the Past Darkly

Brian Teare’s second book sorts through the past and charts a new path for the future of poetry. …more

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April 4th, 2009

A New Babel

fortieth_day_coverThese poems by Kazim Ali are gorgeous, each phrase a breath of prayer, the words presented as humbling offerings, each one a deep bow. …more

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Writer and performer Dawn Trook teaches in the Program in Writing at the University of California, Merced and plays bass guitar in the band B to B-4. Her poems have been seen in Poetry Flash, Colorado Review, Brooklyn Review, Dust Up, and other journals and anthologies.

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