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Robert Manaster

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Robert Manaster has published several poetry reviews with The Rumpus. His other poetry book reviews have appeared in various publications including Colorado Review, Rain Taxi, Tar River Poetry, The Los Angeles Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Birmingham Poetry Review, Rhino, Puerto del Sol, and Image. His website is https://robertmanaster.net/
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Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress

  • Robert Manaster
  • May 7, 2025
Bige as an in-your-face activist-poet resists the colonizer through a poetry they themselves appropriate and transform mainly via language play and voice into an indigenous poetry of personal redemption.
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A Palestinian Voice in Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

  • Robert Manaster
  • March 6, 2024
Here, the will to survive outlasts destruction. Here, Palestinians in Gaza coalesce with the land and its resilient growth and beauty.
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As with Vigor, As with Pain: A Review of How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It

  • Robert Manaster
  • July 19, 2023
Egger’s sentences jump from one point to another, perhaps mirroring in her language how the speakers jump from one bed into another—the next temporary stop is wherever desire leads her to be.
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