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Microreview: Betsy Wheeler, Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room
Non-sonnets and other love poems.
Deer
I forgot for a while that happiness is fragile, that life is made of glass. Maybe I chose to forget those things or needed a rest from knowing them. Once I was reminded, I never forgot again.
Awakening
Muriel Rukeyser’s recently uncovered novel tells the story of a young woman coming of age—politically, sexually, intellectually—in a country at war.
The Discipline of Vicinity
Far from a paean to the far-off and the frontier, Walden testifies to what is most next and near.
Censored by Google
Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.
Poet’s Sampler: Julie Kantor
Inversive and torquing through pronoun and referent, Kantor’s poetry is faster in its lineation, more loyal and astringently ethical, more condensed and driving than any other you’re likely to find.
A Moveable Court
In the marriage and voting rights cases, the world outside powerfully affected the court.
You Won’t See This on TV
The truth about America’s broken criminal justice system is significantly more interesting than scriptwriters’ fiction.
Hardscrabble
The novel House of Earth shows Woody Guthrie in a different light, exiled from the Dust Bowl but dreaming of it still.
Raúl’s Cuba
Raúl is not the same as his brother, but the democratic movement that Cuba needs still is not coming any time soon.
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