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Double Shadow by Carl Phillips

  • D. Gilson
  • June 20, 2012
Double Shadow seems to find the poet at mid-breath, or in a time of transition where the voice may be in flux from previous work; but the watchful eye, and the careful hand that crafts these verses, is still ever-present.
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Madame X by Darcie Dennigan

  • Virginia Konchan
  • June 15, 2012
Madame X pilots the idea that the line between reality and dream is not so much collapsible as it is meant to be collapsed.
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Watchword by Pura López Colomé

  • Barbara Berman
  • June 13, 2012
There is spiritual alchemy at work here, making one wish this piece, and many others, could be chanted by choruses taking turns, in both languages, with an audience not responding audibly between poems.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Emily St. John Mandel

  • Brian Spears
  • June 8, 2012
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Emily St. John Mandel about The Lola Quartet, panthers in Florida, her writing process, and more.
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Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton

  • Alexis Orgera
  • June 8, 2012
It’s 1990. I’ve shut the door to my bedroom, like any self-respecting teenage girl, to listen to my new CD—the one I ordered for a penny from one of those…
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The Silhouettes, by Lily Ladewig

  • Jeff Alessandrelli
  • June 6, 2012
I’m fat. No matter where it stations itself then—against the sunset, unto the dawn, in the most awake and aware of lights at the gas station or drive-thru—my silhouette is…
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Enigma and Light, by David Mutschleener

  • David Peak
  • June 1, 2012
Every once in a while, when I’m reading something, sorting through the words in a half-daze, my brain will just click. I’ll get it. I’ll take on an understanding of…
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David Peak: The Last Book I Loved, Birch Hills at World’s End

  • David Peak
  • May 31, 2012
Every high school has a kid like Erik. He’s sharp, dark, and charming. Add in the fact that he has his own car and impeccable taste in Scandinavian metal, and who better…
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Love, An Index, by Rebecca Lindenberg

  • Spenser Davis
  • May 30, 2012
Love, An Index tells a beautiful and heartbreaking story, and at the heart of it is some of the most original and interesting poetry that I’ve come across in a…
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Adam Parker Cogbill: The Last Book I Loved, Abbott Awaits

  • Adam Parker Cogbill
  • May 29, 2012
I am as guilty as any other reader I know of opening or hijacking conversations with some derivation of, “You know what you should read?” I can’t help myself; I…
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Plume, by Kathleen Flenniken

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • May 26, 2012
Newly appointed Washington State Poet Laureate, Kathleen Flenniken, recently released a second book called Plume, part of the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series of University of Washington Press. I will admit,…
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Vanishing-Line, by Jeffrey Yang

  • Josh Cook
  • May 25, 2012
In Vanishing-Line, Jeffrey Yang writes, “But the birches of Yennecott/ recall his word-spirits.” Rather than using lines or stanzas as the basic unit of expression in this collection, Yang writes…
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