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Josh Cook
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Where I Write #29: Ten Werecantos
We think of our brains as a place. We surround thoughts with metaphors of environment.
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Last Good Kiss BY JAMES CRUMLEY
Doesn’t it always start with poetry? Or at least a poet. Or at least a writer.
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Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter
Josh Cook reviews Kathleen Winters’s Nostalgia for the Criminal Past today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Last Book I Loved: My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard
It was strange. Volume One of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume memoir/novel was, with one traumatic exception near the end, the story of a typical young man. He had a typical childhood broken up only by a typical divorce. He was…
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Balloon Pop Outlaw Black by Patricia Lockwood
Josh Cook reviews Patricia Lockwood’s Balloon Pop Outlaw Black today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Word on the Street by Paul Muldoon
The Word on the Street is not Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon’s first work of writing for music. He wrote librettos for four Daren Hagen operas; Shining Bow, Vera of Las Vegas, Bandanna, and The Ancient Concert and worked in…
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Notturno by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio wrote Notturno on strips of paper big enough for just one line a piece, while his eyes were bandaged into near blindness, as he convalesced for over two months from an eye injury. As Virginia Jewiss writes in…
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Uselysses by Noel Black
Uselysses by Noel Black is a collection of five, distinct, short books of poetry. The first three books collect introspective and self-conscious poems common in contemporary poetry, distinguishing themselves with imaginative imagery and a unique sense of humor. The fourth…
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Vanishing-Line, by Jeffrey Yang
In Vanishing-Line, Jeffrey Yang writes, “But the birches of Yennecott/ recall his word-spirits.” Rather than using lines or stanzas as the basic unit of expression in this collection, Yang writes with something more fluid, more abstract, at a different level…
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selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee
When Boyle is insightful, this style allows the brilliance of the insight to shine through unfiltered and unaided by the mechanisms of literature and poetry, sometimes with powerful effect.
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The Flame an Upright Leaf
Grappling with the problems of an adolescent entering adulthood in a society skewed by violence and oppression, Adam Foulds’ narrative poem is an intellectual, visual, and sensual triumph.