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Richard Deming, Lecturer in English at Yale University, is author of Let's Not Call it Consequence and Listening on All Sides.
Forrest Gander’s latest book injects ethical consequence into his daring sense of the permeability of structure and the instability of form.
The poems of Ann Lauterbach’s Or to Begin Again probe the difficult questions—ethical, emotional, political, and even spiritual—of accounting for despair.
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