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Calvin Bedient

Calvin Bedient’s fifth book of poems, The Breathing Place, will be published next year by Omnidawn. He is the founder and coeditor of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion.

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Poetry
Calvin Bedient

Conceptualism aims to eliminiate affect from poetry. There are emotional and political consequences.

Calvin Bedient

Fuller enters a babblingly confident corporate world where he concedes that something frightful is on the way.

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Reviewing Leland Hickman and Myung Mi Kim.

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Hart Crane's Poems and Letters.
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Seven new poetry collections. 
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From Cathy Park Hong to Andrew Zawacki.
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The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth.
Calvin Bedient

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