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Homebodies by Sarah Jane Sloat

  • Sally Rosen Kindred
  • January 25, 2013
If you open your hands to hold Homebodies, a chapbook of poems by Sarah J. Sloat, you find much about the book itself that makes the act feel personal, private.…
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"Open Heart" by Elie Wiesel
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“Open Heart,” by Elie Wiesel

  • Malcolm Forbes
  • January 24, 2013
When eighty-two-year-old Elie Wiesel was told he needed emergency heart surgery he was surprised rather than afraid.
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Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room by Betsy Wheeler

  • Weston Cutter
  • January 23, 2013
Betsy Wheeler’s Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room has sort of undone me for the month and a half I’ve spent with it, reading it or letting it hang over…
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Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia
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“Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia,” by José Manuel Prieto

  • Ryan Zee
  • January 22, 2013
In 1988, Czech novelist Milan Kundera published a personal dictionary of his “key words, problem words, words I love.” Not your average lexicon, “Sixty-three words” fuses history, philosophy, social-critique and…
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Love Is a Canoe
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“Love Is a Canoe,” by Ben Schrank

  • Brian Gresko
  • January 21, 2013
“Love and marriage,” says the song, “go together like a horse and carriage.” Or do they? In his latest novel, Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank casts a critical eye…
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My Scarlet Ways by Tanya Larkin

  • Sean Singer
  • January 19, 2013
In age of poetry saturated with the irony and airy nonsense of the last phalanx of the grandchildren of the New York School, it is wonderfully refreshing to read Tanya…
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Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder

  • Brynn Downing
  • January 18, 2013
In Amy Beeder’s poetry, we are surrounded by the refuse and remains of the past: memories and photos of lost generations, the bones and fur of animals used to adorn…
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Beamish Boy
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“Beamish Boy (I Am Not My Story): A Memoir of Recovery & Awakening,” by Albert Flynn DeSilver

  • Rebecca Foust
  • January 17, 2013
The story of an artist’s search for identity, Beamish Boy opens with that classic trinity of WASP dysfunction: old money, alcohol abuse, and remote parents. The author’s earliest memories conjure…
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In Beauty Bright by Gerald Stern

  • Andrew Field
  • January 16, 2013
Having never read Gerald Stern’s poetry before, I took This Time: New and Selected Poems out from the library. The book won the National Book Award in 1998, and it…
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Descanso for My Father
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“Descanso for My Father,” by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

  • Jericho Parms
  • January 15, 2013
Like the dreamlike shadowboxes of Joseph Cornell, Fletcher assembles scraps of imagery and inherited keepsakes into an enchanting quest to understand his family’s stories. Yet the abundant images with which Fletcher crafts his essays serve best as they buttress the unknown.
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Summer of Hate
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“Summer of Hate,” by Chris Kraus

  • Ed Winstead
  • January 14, 2013
It’s appropriate to read Chris Kraus’s Summer of Hate in the middle of the winter. The novel is perfect for January and February, being very fast moving and set in…
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Counterpart by Elizabeth Robinson

  • Marisa Siegel
  • January 12, 2013
Marisa Siegel reviews Elizabeth Robinson’s Counterpart today in Rumpus Poetry.
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