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Alan Gilbert

Alan Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry, Late in the Antenna Fields and The Treatment of Monuments, as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.

Articles

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

Alan Gilbert
Poetry
We paint smiley faces on Pop-Tarts for greatness.
I can’t read the fine print, but that’s okay
since we’re already screwed.
Alan Gilbert

Review of Rebecca Wolff's One Morning—

Alan Gilbert

The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn, and Robert Creeley

Alan Gilbert

Bare poetic essentials that at the same time function as gleaming ornaments.

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Selected Poems of Coral Bracho.
Alan Gilbert
Poetry
Alan Gilbert
One Big Self: An Investigation by C.D. Wright.
Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert
By Mark Nowak.
Alan Gilbert

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