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Witty, acerbic at times, and magisterially researched Alice through the Working Class introduces its readers to a new cast of characters and encounters including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lenin, Trotsky, Fidel Castro, Tsar Nicholas II and such historic f...
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”In LAST, E.J. McAdams dares human resilience to witness extinction and what happens inside the middle voice, where "predicates of existing and happening" elevate stillness beyond survival.”—Edwin Torres “What to do with the word 'nature' in poetry...
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“'To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense,' Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, adding: 'and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all.' In this book of seamless discrepancies H. L. Hix says a great deal, ...
“In THE LOST POSITIVE, her stellar second collection of poetry, Elizabeth Strauss Friedman casts the slog of domestic, compulsory heterosexuality into the stars—the result is a new mythology, 'a wandering bruise / of glamour,' in which women refuse ...
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“Towards the end of Mary Pacifico Curtis’s gorgeous, meditative, UNDERSTANDING MOONSEED, she writes: ‘We are all subject to wild fate.’ And nothing feels more wilder or comprehensive than these—as she calls them–essays of life. Curtis establishes e...
“What an abracadabra of abecedarian magic is 26 TEARS! Evoking the Aramaic avra kehdabra, ‘I will create as I speak,’ this collaborative incantation weaves a magical spell of language. Two poets riff in alphabetical measure with illuminating literar...
“Flash realism—this is what Susan Schultz presents in an album of vignette encounters: histories of ‘ordinary pain’; social attentiveness during the extra-dramatic 2020-21; resonant, revealing comments; the micro-allegories of the detail. Where we l...