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Tag Archives: contemporary poetry
You Are Not Dead
You Are Not Dead is a collection of poetry by Wendy Xu, © Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2013
Posted in Book Review
Tagged abstract, book review, contemporary poetry, death, loneliness, perspective, poetry, power, power dynamics
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Sinners Welcome
Sinners Welcome is a collection of poetry (plus a bonus essay) by Mary Karr, © Harper Perennial 2006
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Tagged America, american themes, book review, Catholicism, childhood, contemporary poetry, conversion, God, grief, loss, love, pain, poetry, power, religion, retrospective, transformation, violence
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Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split is a collection of poetry by Nikky Finney, © Northwestern University Press 2011
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Tagged America, american dream, american history, american themes, bodies, book review, contemporary poetry, domestic space, domesticity, feminism, knowledge, labor, national book award, nikky finney, poetry, power, retrospective, rosa parks, sonnet sequence, sonnets, urban space
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You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake
You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake is a collection of poetry by Anna Moschovakis, © Coffee House Press 2011
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Tagged anna moschovakis, argument, book review, cantos, coffee house press, contemporary poetry, death, emmanuel levinas, essay, fragments, poetry, power, process, reading process, reality, scientology, thesis, violence, wittgenstein
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Bewilderment
Bewilderment is a collection of poems and translations by David Ferry, © University of Chicago Press 2012
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Tagged book review, classics, confusion, contemporary poetry, death, form, grammar, knowledge, loneliness, loss, love, mythology, national book award, pain, poetry, potential, reading process, supernatural, translations
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The Fifty Year Sword
The Fifty Year Sword is a novel or a graphic novel or a prose poem. It is fiction. It is written by Mark Z. Danielewski, © Pantheon Books 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, contemporary poetry, East Texas, epic poem, epic poety, Ergodic literature, fiction, fragments, frames, ghost story, ghosts, graphic novel, imagery, loneliness, novel, poetry, postmodernism, prose poem, prose poetry, supernatural, visual poetry, voice
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The New Clean
The New Clean is a collection of poems by Jon Sands, © Write Bloody 2011
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Tagged age, aging, book review, childhood, contemporary poetry, growing up, love, new york city, New York subway, poetry, regression, slam poetry, spoken word, time, trains, transportation
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Love, an Index
Love, an Index is a collection of poetry by Rebecca Lindenberg, © McSweeney’s 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, death, debut, loneliness, loss, love, memory, poetry, reading process, retrospective, travel
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Murder Ballad
Murder Ballad is a collection of poems by Jane Springer, © Alice James Books 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, Cormac McCarthy, death, fantasy, female perspective, Flannery O'Connor, ghosts, history, murder ballad, music, poetry, rape, recommendation, romanticism, southern Gothic, supernatural, the South, violence, William Faulkner, women
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