Poetry. BIRD BOOK is written in collaboration with a field guide to North American birds. Each page both borrows and departs from language found in an individual bird entry. The resulting text is an investigation into dissolved and dissolving narrat...

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Poetry. "Using a linguistic constraint centered exclusively on entries from F-H in the OED, Walker manages to hit on charged words—face, lost, boat, river—words that seem to hold all of human history within them—in ways that set them off in dozens o...

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In spare, lyrical fragments, PSALMBOOK channels the Book of Psalms as an act of radical listening, “a spirituality of attention” (Cole Swensen).In PSALMBOOK, Laura Walker re-inhabits the Book of Psalms, King James Version, to channel the voice she f...

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Poetry. "In Laura Walker's splendid book STORY, she shares the strategies of telling, which, as every savvy writer knows, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back, finding, losing, and recovering the threads of narration—as Paul Ricoeur sa...

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