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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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Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by Ben Lerner, © Coffee House Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged abstract, American experience, art, authenticity, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, contemporary novel, emotional weight, fiction, language, living abroad, loneliness, Madrid, novel, perspective, poetry, power, reality, Spain, translation, travel, urban space, writing process
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American Appetites
American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, © Harper & Row 1989
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, court, death, domestic space, domestic violence, existentialism, fear, feast, fiction, loneliness, novel, perspective, power, power dynamics, relationships, 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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Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior is a novel by Barbara Kingsolver, © HarperCollins 2012
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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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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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