Cleveland Review of Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Visible Man: Poems
Henri Cole
To overstate the importance of the speaker (Glück’s “private voice”) would be to neglect the community that shapes him, an ensemble of others that create the life of these poems. @SambranoPoet on Henri Cole's 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 https://t.co/KEs3BUsG5U
Paperback, 2005
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Hole Studies
Hilary Plum
"Plum trusts that we may understand her meaning only through how her words tear into the surface of our own experiences. She points to a threshold beyond the page." @comeawaywithEMD on Hilary Plum's 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 @fonograf_ed https://t.co/R5WYoSpK1S
Paperback, 2022
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Before I Had the Word: Poems
Brooke Sahni
"The distance between Miriam’s un-naming in holy texts and her naming in these poems creates a space of new possibility for meaning and becoming." Jill Mceldowney reviews Brooke Sahni's 𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘏𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥. https://t.co/CxlHHBrUAa
Paperback, 2021
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Correction
Gabriel Blackwell
Excited to publish this review by @Kevintasker8 on Gabriel Blackwell's "Correction." We'll be co-hosting a talk by @gabeblackwell alongside @CSUPoetryCenter next Tuesday, the 18th, via Zoom at 5pm. We'll post details as the date approaches. https://t.co/ww8Z4r2F9g
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Brutes
Dizz Tate
"Being the object of another’s gaze means ceding control over how you are perceived, but to be watched is also to be worthy of someone else’s voyeurism." @erikadirk on Dizz Tate's 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 @CatapultStory https://t.co/z9fTvFfn9g
Hardcover, 2023
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Brutes
Dizz Tate
For the Cleveland Review of Books podcast, @podracing_champ speaks with @erikadirk about her piece "The Adolescent Gaze: On Dizz Tate’s 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴." https://t.co/OFC1Eia3nP
Hardcover, 2023
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Flinging It
G. Benson
Essays, reviews, essays that look like reviews, reviews that look like essays, not book reviews, not not book reviews, conversations, letters, broadcasts, dispatches, annotations, transpositions, obliterations, experiments in critical response: BRING IT & FLING IT 🔥🔥🔥 https://twitter.com/clereviewbooks/status/1539621568061521923
Paperback, 2016
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
They're a potent reminder that we still live in the shadow of the 20th century—the bargains made therein, the general Faustian demeanor accepted as a national character—and that a certain kind of Modernism still resonates. Philip Harris on Cormac McCarthy https://t.co/9BflxKsIMi
Paperback, 2023
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Is Mother Dead
Vigdis Hjorth
"Johanna’s one-sided account of her childhood and estrangement from her mother invites skepticism only after she begins wildly crossing boundaries, each more serious than the last." @Rgm314 on Vigdis Hjorth's 𝘐𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥 @VersoBooks https://t.co/mwYfpFV6AR
Paperback, 2023
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
"I call her presence a haunting because despite her many attempts to make herself known I did not have eyes to see her. To see a ghost is to change as a person." Anthony Mastromatteo on identity, faith, and Toni Morrison's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘺𝘦. https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/toni-morrison-the-bluest-eye-essay
Paperback, 2007
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