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I’ve been a fan of Joseph Lease’s poetry since I read his first book, Human Rights; and his latest, aptly-named collection, Testify, just released in April from Coffee House Press, is as taut and thrilling, as full of urgency and humility as I’ve come to expect his work to be. …more
I fall in love with books all the time. I remember periods of my life this way – like “what’s-his-name left me when I was reading Mrs. Dalloway” or “I got my first bra during the winter when I read all the Chronicles of Narnia.” The most recent book that I loved was the one that I just finished reading – Away by Amy Bloom. It’s about a Belarusian Jewish immigrant to the U.S. in the mid 1920′s who, through a series of events, travels across the country searching for her daughter. …more
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