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Gone

All we had to do was open up the newspaper to see that girls disappeared and died like stray cats. 

  • Danielle Lazarin
Law Politics

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine.

  • Elias Khoury
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We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O’Brien’s triumph.

  • Roger Boylan
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A Different Drum

Tom McCarthy's The Visitor.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky

  • Marjorie Perloff
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Free verse

Counter-Revolution of the Word:The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960.

  • Charles Bernstein

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Landmarks

Two collections by Kathleen Jamie.

  • Tess Taylor
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Microreview: Rae Armantrout, Next Life

Poetics of dilemma.

  • Thomas Hummel
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Microreview: Brenda Coultas, The Marvelous Bones of Time

Poems preoccupied with ephemeral, numinous features of human experience and the concrete objects that bear their residues.

  • Aaron McCollough
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Microreview: Carson Cistulli, Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated

Cistulli embraces his status as the bastard child of pop culture and the poetic tradition.

  • Nicholas Bredie
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Microreview: César Vallejo, The Complete Poetry

The iconic Peruvian poet.

  • Tanya Larkin
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Microreview: Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft

A book about seeking, though for just what is never wholly clear.

  • Amelia Klein
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Fear of the Possible

  • Anna Catone
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Baited Sonnet

  • Brian Henry
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The Coast of What

  • Brian Henry
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North Cambridge

  • John Koethe
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Interview under Hypnosis

  • Jennifer Militello
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Pure Indonesia

  • Allan Peterson
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Stripes of Knowing How Much Further I Had to Go

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
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The Lost Tin Myth

  • Lytton Smith
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Poet’s Sampler: Youna Kwak

  • Youna Kwak
  • Joanna Klink
Politics

State of the Nation: Electricity and Elections

How Americans feel about energy companies.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Politics

State of the Nation: The Media and Other Matters

What percentage of Americans know someone who is gay? 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Class & Inequality Law

Is It Africa’s Turn?

Progress in the world’s poorest region.

  • Edward Miguel
with responses from
  • Robert H. Bates
  • Ken Banks
  • Olu Ajakaiye
  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Jeremy M. Weisntein
  • Smita Singh
  • Paul Collier
  • Rachel Glennerster
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