Michele Madigan Somerville, she/her Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michele Madigan Somerville, she/her

Day 15, poems, #theSealeyChallenge was Paul Muldoon’s Frolic and Detour. https://t.co/oFEZBbJSUF https://t.co/Ef1RgjElfw

Michele Madigan Somerville, she/her

5/"where Smith had taught...Smith told Jarboe he wanted to receive psychological treatment, and Jarboe suggested he consider a facility that would not 'mark him unfairly' in the future."

Michele Madigan Somerville, she/her

3/Melissa Sevigny is author of Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon.

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4/“In a book released earlier this year, ‘Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present,’ the author Eugene Linden, who has warned about global warming for 30 years, >

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6/Day 6. This book is 18 years old! Finished reading it for the 1st time thus month. #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, poems, lyric, Claudia Rankine https://t.co/kjykQyZSCZ

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Day 25 #theSealeyChallenge was After Callimachus by Stephanie Burt. I finished out the last 6 days reading a book a day, but I have been rereading After Callimachus —I love it so much! — every night since 9/25. https://t.co/tVPNwQCrqK

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Poets Kevin Young & Robin Coste Lewis talk about history, voyages, migration, fake history, poems, art … stunning … https://t.co/ii0lbY5Qs5

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I like Rooney’s work and think she’s doing something interesting in her novels. When Alice Walker did this w/ The Color Purple, almost a decade ago I objected, in part b/c I thought Walker’s book was such an important book, a book so 1/ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sally-rooney-blocks-israeli-edition-of-her-new-novel-in-support-of-palestinian-led-boycott-1.4698248

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4/Day 8, #theSealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge2022 Punks, poems by John Keene https://t.co/cLbMyXggo8

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3/“Sylviane A Diouf is the great historian of the subject. In what is probably a conservative figuring, she writes in Servants of Allah (1998), “there were hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the Americas’ and ‘that may be all we can say about numbers and estimates.”