The poems of Ann Lauterbach’s Or to Begin Again probe the difficult questions—ethical, emotional, political, and even spiritual—of accounting for despair.
Richard Deming
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Haines Eason
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The Passions of Arthur Koestler.
Roger Boylan
Called Into Being
Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven.
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Slumming
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Joyelle McSweeney
The Other Mother Tongue
On The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.
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Elizabeth Gramm
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Craig Morgan Teicher
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Sumita Chakraborty
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Dave Lucas
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Jason Tandon
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Zach Savich
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Experiments in life and poetic form.
Tess Taylor
Know-How
H.L. Hix: Philosopher-Poet
Troy Jollimore
Restless
On the poetry of Carl Phillips.
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