Second Childhood by Fanny Howe
Cynthia Cruz reviews Fanny Howe’s Second Childhood today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Pinwheel by Marni Ludwig
Cynthia Cruz reviews Marni Ludwig’s Pinwheel today in Rumpus Poetry.
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I Did Not Vanish: On Writing
But writing poems allows me mastery over a miniature universe. For those moments or hours, I am God of my kingdom. No one tells me how things go. No one can argue against me when I’m writing poems. When I am writing, I get to speak.
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On Reading
So deep into this other world do I drop, I no longer notice, nor do I care, what’s happening outside the book, in the “real” world. Like a drug, the book seduces me. I can’t resist.
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Across the Land and the Water by W. G. Sebald
In Sebald’s Across the Land and Water, the theme is clear. In these collections, we have named men and women (names) traveling, staying in hotels, unanchored, exiled and lost, seemingly forever, from their home.
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