Not Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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...moreWhat Taussig does, then, is ground these ideas in reality through her own lived experiences.
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...moreBut perhaps it is our want for firm ground that Bolina is challenging.
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...moreAll anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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...moreBrit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
...moreGirlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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...moreThere is no real freedom to create art, only the obligation to wealth.
...moreOur love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.
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...moreA poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
...moreLooking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
...moreWhat does a newborn’s swallow sound like?
...moreThe narrator is trapped here, in the summer her family and her life fell apart.
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