Daisy Fried Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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It also contains one of the filthiest poems I ever wrote. Or my adaptation, more precisely, of the filthiest poem Baudelaire wrote. As you may know, I took 28 poems of Charles Baudelaire and ran them through my 21st Century American woman's idiom and nervous system.

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@Carrie_Etter @VChangPoet And Charles Baxter's essay on defamiliarization in Burning Down the House, though mostly dealing with fiction, is useful for any genre, I think.

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@Joy_Katz @sinaqueyras Best notes I ever saw by Thylias Moss in Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler

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1. I've been looking into May Sarton, listening to an audiobook of her Journal of a Solitude last night while starting to put my poetry books in the shelves to make my new home really a home. In the Journal she writes quite a bit about...(cont'd)

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A student did a presentation on Yoko Ono's grapefruit and I was charmed and bought a copy and really like it a lot. Any other fans?

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"The hospice nurse said it’s best to just listen. Or bring news of the outside world." From "How Are You," one of terrifically four moving poems by Denise Duhamel @ScoundrelTime, about the death of an elderly mother, and aging in America. Please read. https://t.co/CLcx6AiqZ5

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I wrote about Niina Pollari's Path of Totality and "the astonishments of grief" @PoetryFound https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/157463/silent-forests-of-the-heart

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Really really liking @egabbert's book L'Heure Bleue, or The Judy Poems, which are in the voice/mind of Judy from Shawn's play The Designated Mourner, & are really subtle, interesting, crisp. You don't have to know the play to appreciate, although that's an extra benefit. Sample: https://t.co/NJ8xYLThBs

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@TheBookMaven You probably read it a few years ago but I am LOVING Olivia Laing's Crudo...

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@rabihalameddine Just finished Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These---very good!