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Christian Anton Gerard
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Both/And: Republic Café by David Biespiel
How is one to make sense of making catastrophe and making love in the same moment?
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Blood Flower by Pamela Uschuk
Christian Anton Gerard reviews Pam Uschuk’s Blood Flower today in Rumpus Poetry.
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How to Dance as the Roof Caves In by Nick Lantz
Christian Anton Gerard reviews Nick Lantz’s How to Dance as the Room Caves In today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Saints of Streets by Luisa Igloria
Christian Anton Gerard reviews (in epistolary form) Luisa Igloria’s The Saints of Streets today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Making’s Progress; or, A Defense of Poetry
“But how poetry can touch this utmost experience of being, before which language falters, I do not know, and can’t know, I am unable to know–unless I turn to poetry again…”
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The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Kara Candito
“I think most contemporary poets occupy a fairly humble place in the universe, that we have few Byronic illusions about our fame. The act of reading my poems to an audience will always be a bit scary.”
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A Vowel Away From Master
These poems often resist the reader in the same way his speaker resists his father, but the book’s exploration of such distance creates a closeness between the reader and the poems, and the speaker and his father, that’s almost too…
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In Search of Free Union
Free Union is much more than a small Virginia town. It is also the choice involved; the choice to go back to the land, the choice to settle with a partner, father children, and find both comfort and discomfort in…