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Award-winning literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, essays, art, & reviews. Published quarterly in Athens, GA, since 1947.

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Book Cover for: As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020, Stephen Corey

As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020

Stephen Corey
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Athens—join us TONIGHT for a reading with GR Editor Emeritus Stephen Corey to celebrate the release of his new collection, As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New & Selected Poems, 1981–2020 Sept 1st at 7:00, Special Collections Libraries https://t.co/zoJCzf00WB

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Book Cover for: Saltmarsh, Clive Chatters

Saltmarsh

Clive Chatters
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"Saltmarsh's personal experience, as a mother, as a woman in the world, drives everything. Moments of profound change, of visionary transport, lift the weight of political, historical, sociological detail."—Elizabeth Arnold, author of Skeleton Coast https://t.co/Gu8s0X31ng

Hardcover, 2022

$50.00Member price:$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr
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The science that destroys us (weapons) and the science employed to deal with climate change (space exploration) are juxtaposed here with one of the simplest and most valuable kinds of science: the book. https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/gr2/on-cloud-cuckoo-land-by-anthony-doerr/

Paperback, 2022

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Navigator: Develop Founder Skills to Lead Your Startup Successfully, My-Tien Vo

The Navigator: Develop Founder Skills to Lead Your Startup Successfully

My-Tien Vo
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Michi Meko's 2016 piece, "The Navigator," is helping to guide us through the end of January. Check out the rest of the Atlanta-based artist's portfolio in our Winter 2019 issue, and read an interview with Meko on our site: https://t.co/lPuYJpirwa https://t.co/oR6mDj6qzh

Paperback, 2018

$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Correction, Gabriel Blackwell

Correction

Gabriel Blackwell
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Blackwell calls the short prose pieces in CORRECTION “readymades,” and in them he works to refashion our daily encounters with the digital by dissolving the lines between fiction/nonfiction, found/created, and remembered/dreamed. https://t.co/hw3lWFX4bO

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Book Cover for: Natural History: Poems, José Watanabe

Natural History: Poems

José Watanabe
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Pre-order & save 20% !!! Natural History by José Watanabe + Gaze Back by Marylyn Tan https://t.co/6uclGz3lhs https://t.co/fk3fINATL6

Paperback, 2022

$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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In Ní Ghríofa’s case, she draws parallels between the work of reading and translating the caoinead with her experience of pregnancy, postpartum motherhood, and the performance of domestic labor. https://t.co/V6aT0c1GOO

Paperback, 2021

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories, Meron Hadero

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories

Meron Hadero
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Here, when Hadero draws a distinct line to carve out this diasporic community’s unique experience, she also raises questions that reveal what’s disturbing them: who gets to belong in America? Who’s allowed to achieve the American Dream? https://t.co/0kNgVVmPRr

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Book Cover for: Skeleton Coast, Elizabeth Arnold

Skeleton Coast

Elizabeth Arnold
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Such astonishing swerves into transformative perception are the product of ‘merging the confessional with the archival.’ It’s a winning combination.” —Elizabeth Arnold, author of Skeleton Coast https://t.co/uHKZ7sidcq

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Book Cover for: The Voice of Sheila Chandra, Kazim Ali

The Voice of Sheila Chandra

Kazim Ali
Georgia ReviewGeorgia Review

Check out excerpts of Kazim Ali's poem, "The Voice of Sheila Chandra," featured on our website. Read the full text in our Winter 2019 issue. https://t.co/BP33eLde66 Locals, join us next Thursday (1/30) to hear Kazim read his work and discuss "queer faith" with Lee Cornell. https://t.co/1VTPv08bJ0

Paperback, 2020

$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book