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How the World Happens to Us: Lucy Ives’ Life Is Everywhere

Lucy Ives has proven herself to be one of our greatest under-the-radar geniuses, but an achievement like Life Is Everywhere demands attention. The systems have long been in place, but everyone will see them now.

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Escaping the Infinite: An Omnibus Review of Four Contemporary Works of Poetry

So everything should be very clear.

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Finding Land: Audrey Magee’s The Colony

“When you look at the colonial system, one of the things they want to eradicate is the native language, because they don’t understand what’s going on and they can’t control it.”

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The Pastoral Novel in Chaos: Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency

. . . to witness the world is always to participate in it, to make choices about what to see and what to ignore, and also to be worked upon by forces of differing scales.

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Sketch Book Reviews: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

EMBRACE FEARLESSLY THE BURNING EARTH . . . is a quintessential Barry Lopez book. It is a clarion call to lovers of the earth, but one full of hope and optimism. This is exactly the kind of book we should all be reading right now.

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Love in and Loving Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons

If I didn’t already write poems, Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons would make me want to write them.

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The Imprint of a Mind: Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra

This sparse book, “an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes,” deals with the author’s dueling fears of recent and future earthquakes and her impending childbirth.

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Glimpses of Peace Only in Dreams: Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees

There’s a war on, and Sergey Sergeyich is worried about his bees.

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A Collection of Hours: Look Here by Ana Kinsella

Reading about flânerie is a “useful” thing for me to do: useful for my career, for my scholarly ambitions. Actually partaking in flânerie is rarely useful in these ways

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“I Was Born to This Poetry”: The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang

I hear the gossip of flowers / insatiable in their lust / Consider the cages that are our bodies

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Sketch Book Reviews: Birds and Us by Tim Birkhead

THE BIRDS AND US, written by Tim Birkhead and released August 2022 from Princeton Review Press, is atheist perfect mix of history, narrative, and science with a dash of cool illustrations. Throughout the book, readers will learn about everything from bird cave paintings, to birdwatching, and everything in between.

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A Sultry Register: Nichole Perkins’s Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be

In early May I was scrolling through Twitter when I came across a post from author Nichole Perkins that piqued my interest. It was a sexy tweet—in a string of…

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