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Knowing the End before the Beginning: A Conversation with Jonathan Miles
The distinctions we make between ourselves and our animal brethren tend to be very self-flattering. We have unique skills and capabilities, to be sure, but they’re just fractionally different from those of many animals, and our primal drives are essentially…
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Four Poems
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn’t so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement— something we might forget aboutif one of us didn’t sign it every day—…
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A Backyard of One’s Own: The Meticulous Ecology of Cecily Parks’ “The Seeds”
The incisive precision of The Seeds’s assemblage cannot be overstated: if the collection is an ecosystem, its sections and sequences are habitats, and each poem is a haunt. The poems are divided into five sections, bookended by a hackberry, and…
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Distracting Self from Grief through Form: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
“I wanted to do a heroic crown of sonnets to try to encapsulate the bigness of his life, but also the bigness of his loss. That was a lot to deal with. So, knowing that I at least could focus…
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The Promise of Deliverance, The Potential for Doom: A Conversation with Scott Broker
“This book hopes to challenge the myth that there is any one right way to be an artist, primarily by showing how many contradictory answers people try to give you to that question. What works for any one person is…
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