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Sean Singer

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Either Way I’m Celebrating by Sommer Browning

  • Sean Singer
  • August 15, 2012
Sommer Browning’s Either Way I’m Celebrating shows effervescence, delight in language, and whimsy, even as it hides more introspective and severe undertones. Taking elements of surrealism from the Ashbery branch…
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A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon

  • Sean Singer
  • April 20, 2012
I found this text to be profound, relentless, frustrating, inspiring, demanding, silly, pompous, elastic, and mind-expanding. That is what poetry is for, and this is for poetry.
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There Are More Knowzits Than Ever

  • Sean Singer
  • January 18, 2012
Coleman’s work is functional and communal; she wields the oral tradition in a way that reflects her poetry ancestry—the blues queen, Koko Taylor, for example, or the fringe Beat genius,…
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Wings Wands Stars Tulle

  • Sean Singer
  • August 17, 2011
These poems have all the instinct and fangs of a canine, and the plush, electric fur of a wolf: the intensity and sheer quality of workmanship in the poems is…
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Like Algae on the Surface of Grace

  • Sean Singer
  • July 15, 2011
There is a feeling of complicity in his [Dlugos’s] best poems in that he makes the reader love the burnished, tumultuous late nights and affection for those around him.
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Why I Chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

  • Sean Singer
  • July 8, 2011
Rumpus Poetry Book Club board member Sean Singer on why he chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You as the July selection for…
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Why I Chose Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

  • Sean Singer
  • May 4, 2011
Tracy Smith’s LIFE ON MARS is a strong, surprising, and often beautiful book.
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No Trace of Origin, No Thorn

  • Sean Singer
  • April 29, 2011
The poems in Copperhead use the deeply wrought questions with which it is concerned to wisely come up with a sort of memoir, which is attaching deeply felt memories with…
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Mis-Writing Race Is a Failure of the Imagination

  • Sean Singer
  • March 15, 2011
In February at the AWP Conference in Washington D.C., Claudia Rankine gave a talk about Tony Hoagland’s poem “The Change.” Afterward, she posted a call for responses to the conversation…
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From Exuberant Hanging Gardens

  • Sean Singer
  • December 17, 2010
Leslie Williams is a fine poet, skillful and smart. She takes a range of topics I find by themselves repelling or uninteresting (suburban life, nature, flowers, gardening, Thomas Jefferson, the…
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I Know My Brother In the Mirror

  • Sean Singer
  • November 19, 2010
Michael Klein’s then, we were still living is a thoughtful, emotional book that treats death in a fresh, even endearing way.
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What We Hack Up We Can Choke Down

  • Sean Singer
  • October 13, 2010
It is Zweig’s essential Vermont-y-ness that makes her indispensable. The charm and beauty of those green mountains and isolation and mud seasons of that terrain is applied thickly in these…
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