UCity Review Editors Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Tracy K. Smith's poem "Duende" from the book Duende (@GraywolfPress 2007) https://t.co/sZeQh7lSwU "Each with a small reservoir / Of furious music heavy in the throat." #TheSealeyChallenge

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#FridayReads on Saturday: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan (2022) "Because, ultimately, money doesn't matter. Nor do the things it can buy. Because no matter how many chairs you have, you only have one ass."

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"Elegy on Toy Piano" by Dean Young https://t.co/Tol8iHUrV8 "Necessary it is to love to live / and there are many manuals / but in all important ways / one is on one's own."

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Burn's Country Music... Michael Herr's Dispatches... Simic's New & Selected poems... Mining the music from the 1990s (Portishead, Massive Attack, Throwing Muses, Belly, Bjork, Radiohead, many more)... List of views, reads and listens that have prodded my imagination lately...

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Retrospective: Eric Pankey four poems in issue one. https://t.co/Le2FxVc6cK "To be allowed a stolen glance. After thirty years, the erotic still walks that tightrope between the allowed and the stolen. What, he wonders guiltily, does he mean by allowed, by stolen."

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The Sonnets by @SandmanSimonds Bloof Books, 2014. #TheSealyChallenge I admire the subversiveness in these poems. Subversiveness, an often overlooked quality in poetry but one I value. Here's an example, "Shopping Mall Pastoral." https://t.co/y8sUqyc9CK

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Two poems by Daniel Romo in the December 2022 (current) issue: "Autobiographies" and "Hunting." https://t.co/IyK5vxPGWf "There are days when cars keep cutting in front of you / one after the other, / and other days when the sailing is smooth"

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Revisit: Charlie Smith's volume, Heroin, came out in 2000. The title poem always astounds me. Here it is from the New York times with some other poems from the volume. https://t.co/NA4MDIWE6l #NationalPoetryMonth

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Random: on my night stand--The Complete Shakespeare, Riverside, 2nd edition; The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan; Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson; The Lice, W.S. Merwin; and Citizen, Claudia Rankine.

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Revisit: Charlie Smith's volume, Heroin, came out in 2000. The title poem always astounds me. Here it is from the New York times with some other poems from the volume. https://t.co/NA4MDIWE6l #NationalPoetryMonth