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Tag Archives: loss
The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars is a novel by Peter Heller, © Knopf 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, book review, contemporary fiction, death, fiction, friendship, homosocial space, killing, loneliness, loss, male space, men, novel, reality, ruthlessness, violence, women
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Sinners Welcome
Sinners Welcome is a collection of poetry (plus a bonus essay) by Mary Karr, © Harper Perennial 2006
Posted in Book Review
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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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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Love, an Index
Love, an Index is a collection of poetry by Rebecca Lindenberg, © McSweeney’s 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, death, debut, loneliness, loss, love, memory, poetry, reading process, retrospective, travel
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The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth
The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth is a collection of poems by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, © Tupelo Press 2009 If you’d like a helping hand with this one, click the Tupelo Press link for a cool little Reader’s … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, collage poetry, contemporary poetry, forgetting, frames, language, loss, memory, perspective, photography, poetry, reading process
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