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Poetry That Makes You Nearly Miss the Plane: The Complete Works of Pat Parker edited by Julie R. Enszer

In other words, sometimes we need to be jolted out of our predictable behaviors and routines. We need the kind of reading that scatters us, pulls and weaves our cerebral, emotional, and visceral chains.

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Controlled Burns: Meadowland Take My Hand by Pamela Hughes

It's old news that there’s poetry in decomposition, but welcome news that Jersey has such an astutely musical young voice.

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An Ambitious Atlas of Fears: Catherine Pierce’s The Tornado Is the World

Pierce’s poems approach danger from surprising angles. Do you fear the tornado? Then come inside it and hear it speak.

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A Very Great Scoundrel: The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume III: Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks

In hindsight, it’s sometimes difficult not to read more than a bit of sadomasochism into Hopkins’s inner passions and the ways in which he resisted them.

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All of the Facts and None of the Truth: Fox Frazier-Foley’s Like Ash in the Air after Something Has Burned

While these women are physically gone, they gain agency after their deaths through Frazier-Foley’s poems.

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Pressing Back against the Pressure: A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff

It’s about pressure. The pressure of one being enveloping another being, of one mother hugging her child, of a greater force subsuming and defining a lesser.

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The Queer Valentine of the Century: Jenny Johnson’s In Full Velvet

In Full Velvet offers the truth of a woman’s life—the queer truth, the queer rose, the queer valentine. And everything is different after that moment of initiation, instantiation.

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We Have Met the Maelstrom, and It Is Us: Dean Rader’s Self-Portrait as a Wikipedia Entry

Umbrellas are flimsy shelters from the maelstrom, and Rader keeps going because he can’t stop.

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Marie Howe Is Magic: Reading Magdalene

Howe’s Magdalene is ambitious in its reach and strangely timely, as American society has swung to the right and, in the process, against the tide of equality for women.

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The Teenage Girl in All of Us: Last Sext by Melissa Broder

Last Sext captures a youthful, hard, myth-informed, sleep deprived, aroused, spiritually searching, self-loathing worldview embraced by many of the young women in our lives.

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