Holding Together What’s Left: The Blues of Heaven by Barbara Ras
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...morePleasures and possibilities, though, come hard-won in this book.
...moreWendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
...moreLike a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
...moreIf the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
...moreCai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.
...moreThis collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
...more“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
...more“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
...moreKathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
...moreFor me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
...moreWhat does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
...more“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
...moreAll I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
...moreWhat my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
...moreI still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
...moreI needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
...moreGirlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
...moreElizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
...moreR. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
...more“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
...moreAnd then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
...moreChange happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
...moreLooking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
...moreElvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
...moreLiz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
...moreSurvival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
...moreIt isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
...moreLindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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