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Jason Tandon, a lecturer at Boston University’s Writing Program, is author of Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt and Wee Hour Martyrdom.
Dean Young’s first book of criticism is a frenetic and subversive meditation on poetry and poetics seemingly inspired by Whitman’s exhortation to “unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"
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