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"For Donnelly, our favorite modern tools—science, economics—are no more able to define a human than they are to define a cloud."
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Harvard Review Online| May 15, 2020
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Paper Bells Phan Nhien Hao Hai-Dang Phan (Translator) I Song Cave, 2020
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"Though dismal, the book is not a morass of challenge. Tension is alleviated; still, there is the rain. The rain that cleanses is also the rain that keeps us inside, keeps us at rest, keeps us centered to where our minds can transport through memory and commitment to our former selves, situations, and locations. And remain stable, fervent, integral."
-Greg Bem
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Artificial Gut Feeling By Anna Zett l Divided Publishing Ltd, 2019
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"Communication encompasses more than language, more than symbolic meaning, more than ideology or history. Our non-verbal selves can be frightening to think about, so if that’s a fear you’re inclined to pursue, follow Anna Zett’s lead."
-Eric Aldrich
Full Stop I May 14, 2020
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| How the Water Holds Me By Tariq Luthun | Bull City Press, 2020 |
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"Luthun, one of the finest Palestinian poets of the diaspora, keeps the cause of Palestine alive in his first chapbook, How the Water Holds Me. In his lyrical, rhythmic verse, I recognize the original waves of loss, shock, yearning, and love that swept into our diasporic Palestinian families in 1948, and how those waves return with each new generation."
-Layla Azmi Goushey
Jadaliyya | June 11, 2020
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| DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi | Wave Books, 2020 |
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Rain Taxi | Summer 2020
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| God's Green Earth By Noelle Kocot | Wave Books, 2020 |
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"The simple house, the temple, has been relinquished in favour of the company of friends. Here, Kocot’s speaker has walked out into the open air, and we leave them looking at the grass."
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The White Review | June 2020
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"Fred Moten creates a kind of communitarian poetics, citing lists of others whose presences come to bear on poems that merge qualities of philosophy, free jazz, art criticism, political critique (focused on racism and social constructions of the self) and joyous sonic elán.
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New York Times | June 11, 2020
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| Lake of Urine: A Love Story Guillermo Stitch | Sagging Meniscus Press, 2020 |
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Gnome Appreciation Society | June 15, 2020 |
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What Fox Knew By Mary Barnes | At Bay Press, 2019
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"A beautifully designed book housing a strong set of sometimes-furious, sometimes-shy poems, What Fox Knew is a well-rounded debut collection. "
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The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing By Joseph Fasano | Platypus Press, 2020
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" The encounter between this determined human and his equally imposing animal adversary is as profoundly psychological as it is intensely physical."
Kirkus Reviews | June 26, 2020 |
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Defacing the Monument By Susan Briante | Noemi Press, 2020
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"Incorporating images of official documents from the hearing and other government texts throughout, Briante meditates on the tensions between the words document and documentary."
Publishers Weekly | June 15, 2020
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Code By Charlotte Pence | Black Lawrence Press, 2020
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"The almost-documentary, matter-of-fact approach of sharing a friend’s poems began summoning my own grief, and elided into the realm of poetry that is interested in the universal and the transpersonal."
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The Shore By Chris Nealon | Wave Books, 2020
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"That is the gift of this book: its commitment, tenderly and fiercely, to joyfulness, to beauty, while looking clear-eyed at our terrors, the ones we humans experience and the ones we perpetrate."
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