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Tag Archives: retrospective
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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Autobiography of Us
Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013
Posted in Book Review
Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women
2 Comments
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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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
6 Comments
Barley Patch
Barley Patch is a novel by Gerald Murnane, © Dalkey Archive Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Australian, book review, character, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, literary theory, loneliness, novel, perspective, philosophy, professor, reading process, retrospective, theory, writers, writing, writing process
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The Cat’s Table
The Cat’s Table is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, © Knopf 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, change, child protagonist, children, coming of age, contemporary fiction, fiction, growing up, losers, novel, perspective, retrospective, ship, steamship, transition
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