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Last Book I Loved

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The Last Poem I Loved: “In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden” by Matthea Harvey

  • Anne H. Putnam
  • November 3, 2021
I read poetry for enjoyment now, to feel seen, and to see the world differently.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae

  • Dana Levin
  • May 17, 2021
I’m fascinated that the speaker’s harm disappearing is a function of being in Hell.
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The Last Book I Loved: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick and the Shifting of Cultural Values

  • Lily Houston Smith
  • March 3, 2021
Whose stories deserve to be told? Who deserves to tell them? And how?
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The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019

  • Wesley Sexton
  • September 17, 2019
In such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Caligulan” by Ernest Hilbert

  • John Wall Barger
  • March 14, 2019
Now we are untethered, which is disquieting.
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The Last Poem I Loved : “The Planned Child” by Sharon Olds

  • Jacob Stratman
  • April 30, 2018
The poem is no longer a part of the book I own. I ripped it out, had it framed, and nailed it to the wall right next to the door in our master bedroom.
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The Last Poem I Loved: The Waste Land

  • Emily Frisella
  • March 19, 2018
It is March, almost April, and the year feels like a spool of days spliced out of order, leaping treacherously from sun to ice to sun to rain to snow.
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The Last Book I Loved: Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes

  • Abigail Licad
  • March 2, 2017
Through incisive and uncompromising verse, Reyes unearths the hypocrisy at work in exalted American democracy...
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The Last Book I Loved: So Long, See You Tomorrow

  • Kevin Dean
  • December 20, 2016
By drawing us into his childhood, Maxwell shows us how to revisit our own. We become the storytellers of our own lives.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Telling

  • Suzanne Clores
  • October 10, 2016
After what seems like a lifetime of bracing and bottling, I've gotten closer to settling my fourth-grade trauma.
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The Last Book I Loved: Abbott Awaits

  • Christopher Benz
  • June 29, 2016
Summer works like this. Every day small moments cycle like waves within tides, eroding our opportunities on a geological scale invisible from our point of immersion.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Loss of All Lost Things

  • Anjanette Delgado
  • March 15, 2016
I recognize something in the stories... It’s the culture of “I made it” versus the culture of staying behind, the culture of achievement versus the culture of guilt.
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