Exceptional Pain and Power: Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
See how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
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Posts Tagged: Julie Marie Wade
A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
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Paying Attention: Elizabeth Jacobson’s Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air
Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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Beyond the Manicured Surfaces: Talking with Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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A Hybrid Wonder: Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom
Your book is full of glorious limbos.
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Paying It Forward: A Conversation with Lawrence Schimel
Writer, translator, editor, and publisher Lawrence Schimel talks about his work in the literary world.
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Poetry Is Wild: Talking with Ariel Francisco
Ariel Francisco discusses his forthcoming second collection, A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP.
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A Slant Wholeness: Talking with Barrie Jean Borich
Barrie Jean Borrich discusses her work, including her most recent collection APOCALYPSE, DARLING.
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Little Containers for Safekeeping: A Conversation with Rick Barot
Poet Rick Barot discusses his existing body of work and the forthcoming collection THE GALLEONS.
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A Live Ember: Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe Is Made
Over time, Strickland’s lines themselves grow wild, less uniform in their patterns of indentation. Like root structures deep in the ground, they branch in many directions.
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An Atlas of Unmappables: Jennifer S. Cheng’s Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems
Reading Moon was a hypnotic experience for me, simultaneously immersive and elusive.
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2018
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2018!
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Subtle Magic: Starfish by Sara Goodman
This book is a map, Dear Reader. And you are here.
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The Voice Is a Social Construct: Talking with Kristina Marie Darling
Poet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
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Making a Nest within a Book: Kevin McLellan’s Ornitheology
In my reading, Ornitheology turns out to be a book of psalms.
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Dream Big: Hillary, Made Up by Marianne Kunkel
Hillary, Made Up is a complex feminist undertaking that undermines traditional notions of interpretation.
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How to Become a Poet: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
“You don’t have to drink yourself into the Great American Poetry Masterpiece.”
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Hero and Villain: Emily Pérez’s House of Sugar, House of Stone
How hard it is to trust the difference between sacrifice and sabotage!
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Poet-Cosmologist: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley
“The cusp of errand and awe is where poetry always is for me.”
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Next Letter in the Mail: Julie Marie Wade
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Julie Marie Wade!
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With Great Devotion: Julie Marie Wade’s Same-Sexy Marriage
Ultimately, this is a story in which redemption is not a possibility.
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Learning to Grow Where Planted: Maggie Smith’s Good Bones
Part of looking closer is seeing what is hard to face, and part of having courage is addressing what seems futile.
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Woven from Dreams: A Conversation with Kiki Petrosino
Kiki Petrosino discusses her newest collection, Witch Wife, the career she’d have in an alternate universe, and the relationship between reading and writing.
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Nesting Dolls: Julie Carr’s Objects from a Borrowed Confession
Would you say poetry, for you, is the vessel which houses all other forms? I would say it is for me.
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills
Poet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what’s next.
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Map-Making: Alex Dimitrov’s Together and By Ourselves
At one point, I write in my margin: There is no X marks the spot for treasure here. The map is the treasure. Which is another way of saying: this book is the bounty; these poems are the gold.
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Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews
Matthews is a poet of multivalent ways and hows, an artist at home in the riddle of refusal.
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Both Companion and Guide: Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Field Guide to the End of the World
I recommend you pull over now. Better yet, I recommend you call in sick and turn your car around. You’re going to want to read this book in one solitary burst…
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More Than Vicarious: Conflation and ALOHA / irish trees
In this intimate, auditory format, you can hear the poets’ pages crinkling as they turn them—such a reassuring sound—turning pages instead of scrolling screens!
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