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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, what if your Christmas tree ornaments could tweet. Then, in the Saturday film review of Wild—the film adaptation of Dear Sugar columnist Cheryl Strayed’s eponymous novel—Kenny Ng praises Strayed’s “realness” and “punk aesthetic” while tempering expectations for the film.…
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To look at the sea is to become what one is by Etel Adnan
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Etel Adnan’s To look at the sea is to become what one is today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
In response to Dave Eggers’s new book, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live For Ever?, Alex Kalamaroff takes us on a guided tour of the “dialogue novel,” a genre where conversation between characters is “the primary…
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Looking at Spent: A Memoir
Rumpus contributor Antonia Crane‘s forthcoming memoir, Spent, is getting some great reviews ahead of its early 2014 release. Check out what the Library Journal has to say: “VERDICT This is not an antiprostitution diatribe, but is instead one woman’s account of…
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Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950–2013 by Robert Bly
Damon Ferrell Marbut reviews Robert Bly’s Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950 – 2013″ today in Rumpus Poetry.
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On Transgender Poetry
At the Los Angeles Review of Books this week, Stephen Burt reviews the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and discusses how poetry allows us, reader and author alike, to inhabit a body or being better or…
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God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
Reading God Is Disappointed in You, I began to question the wisdom of letting violent prisoners spend any time at all in their cells reading the real Bible. And should we really leave copies in hotel drawers, where innocent children…
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Sound Takes: Our Own Dystopian Future
Cult Favorite For Mad Men Only (Reservoir Sound) Cult Favorite‘s album For Mad Men Only, a trip-hop collaboration between Brooklyn rapper Elucid and New York noise-experimentalist A.M. Breakups, is simply challenging.
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SOUND TAKES: IMPLICIT INFLUENCE
Snowblink Inner Classics (Arts & Crafts Records) Sometimes ascribing a name to something (a painting, a song, a poem) becomes easier after creation. One may not realized the extent to which her subconscious has been influenced by outside factors (e.g.,…
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Now Make an Altar by Amy Beeder
In Amy Beeder’s poetry, we are surrounded by the refuse and remains of the past: memories and photos of lost generations, the bones and fur of animals used to adorn ourselves, the smell of fallow plants. Her second collection of…
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“Fancy Clapping” by Mark D. Dunn
How many contemporary Canadian poets can I name? Not many, which makes me feel stupid, especially since the books I have read by Canadian writers are so good. Mark Dunn is one of those writers. He’s also an accomplished singer-songwriter…
