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Head Off & Split
Head Off & Split is a collection of poetry by Nikky Finney, © Northwestern University Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
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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Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior is a novel by Barbara Kingsolver, © HarperCollins 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged adaptation, adultery, American south, book review, Christianity, contemporary fiction, culture, emotional weight, feminism, fiction, global warming, knowledge, loneliness, love, marriage, miracle, novel, perspective, power, reality, religion, southern culture, supernatural, women, women's issues
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Review Review
This is a review of reviews. Happy New Year.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apocalypse, awkward, death, frames, knowledge, language, loneliness, power, supernatural, violence
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Bewilderment
Bewilderment is a collection of poems and translations by David Ferry, © University of Chicago Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
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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Spurious
Spurious is a novel by Lars Iyer, © Melville House 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged academics, apocalypse, beckett, blanchot, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, fragments, funny, kafka, knowledge, nihilism, novel, philosophy, postmodernism, questions
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The Last Warner Woman
The Last Warner Woman is a novel by Kei Miller, © Coffee House Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, gender, jamaica, knowledge, language, London, nihilism, novel, parables, readers, reading, reading process, religion, supernatural, warning, writers, writing, writing process
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The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is a collection of poetry by Nick Flynn, © Graywolf Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged abu ghraib, book review, contemporary, contemporary poetry, emotional weight, knowledge, language, nick flynn, pain, perspective, poetry, testimony, violence, witness
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