BRITTANY: Last night we had a Zoom drink and you said, “I’ll never write again.” This, about a month before your next book comes out. Over [...]
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Jill, I’m really happy to have the chance to ask you a few things about your new book, Asylum. I’ve read this book through and through—in [...]
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Diode Editions, 2019, 978-1-939728-29-6. Poetry is itself a trick, an illusion of survival. With a title like “We Call Them Beautiful” one has to get past [...]
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Nikky Finney, whose new work as well as an interview with Dr. Elizabeth West appears in Vol. 19, no. 2, grew up in an environment that wasn’t focused [...]
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Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019, 978-1-7337683-3-7, $15. The poems in Jeff Oaks’ Little What are masterfully hearty and inhabited. Memory, rising and falling, can be very [...]
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(Indolent Books, 978-1-945023-22-4, 2019, $19.99) Don Yorty notes that he started writing a large set of sonnets shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. They [...]
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