Matthew Minicucci Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Provides readers with a series of complicated characters, within seemingly isolated and intimate chapters, who make tough, existence-defining choices... This theme of choice and who bears the responsibilities of those choices is paramount to both the novel and its perspectives.

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@tomsojka Donna Tartt’s THE SECRET HISTORY

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From GREEN SQUALL (2006, @yalepress) by Jay Hopler https://t.co/371EMSaChI

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"Her dark eyes, how they follow you in this room—/ she won't let up. She's standing at the finish, both of you/ still punching holes through each other & calling it love." From FIGHTING IS LIKE A WIFE, (will be released 4/12/22!) from @Coffee_House_ by @Eloisa_Amezcua https://t.co/s6qQnBbkm4

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Still one of my favorite openings for a poem ever. From ELEGY (1997, @UPittPress) by Larry Levis https://t.co/BE7Qm6BGeF

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Continually reminded by John Ashbery of the absolute cacophony of possible syntax choices one can make in a poem. From SOME TREES (1957 [1978 reprint], @eccobooks) https://t.co/zCvKSCTam6

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“the power of a poem inheres in the realization that we cannot count on it. Its ephemeral consolation depends precisely on its being ephemeral…” James Longenbach, THE RESISTANCE TO POETRY (2004) https://t.co/48AxuCY8qb

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"lamplight. Show me one beast / that loves itself as relentlessly / as even the most miserable man." From PILGRIM BELL (2021, @GraywolfPress) by Kaveh Akbar https://t.co/0pM5f77eNS

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"But the world is/gone But the world is/a lake in the shape of/a lake" From A YEAR & OTHER POEMS (2022, @Milkweed_Books) by Jos Charles https://t.co/4OFvt83Hay

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This tweet is the plot of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play GLORIA, which you should definitely read/see. https://t.co/WYfJaBguQ5