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Book Cover for: The Visible Man: Poems, Henri Cole

The Visible Man: Poems

Henri Cole
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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
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"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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Book Cover for: Before I Had the Word: Poems, Brooke Sahni

Before I Had the Word: Poems

Brooke Sahni
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"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
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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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Book Cover for: Brutes, Dizz Tate

Brutes

Dizz Tate
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"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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Book Cover for: Brutes, Dizz Tate

Brutes

Dizz Tate
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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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Book Cover for: Flinging It, G. Benson

Flinging It

G. Benson
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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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Book Cover for: The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
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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
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"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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Book Cover for: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
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"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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