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Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s 'One Morning—.'
So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.
Jon Curley
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Mediators! Matadors! Joshua Clover’s 'Red Epic'
A swansong for the millennium has just been written and none too soon; or rather, an evensong for late capitalism’s annihilation.
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Delving into Multiple Depths: Barbara Henning’s 'A Day Like Today'
Poems preoccupied with geography, for the impatient reader, can feel less like landscapes and more like land mines to be avoided.
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Transient Truths in Fragile Focus: Geoffrey O’Brien’s 'In a Mist'
Geoffrey O’Brien — critic, columnist, essayist, editor-in-chief of The Library of America, and poet — is both a preservationist and an elegist, savoring what can be saved, acknowledging what will always be lost.
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Words in Worlds of Light: Joseph Donahue's Dissolves
Not only fragments and filaments, but also liturgies and litanies embed themselves in Joseph Donahue’s Terra Lucida, a chain of poetic assemblage that both embodies and breaks free of given notions of the long poem. While the formal designs of that thematic behemoth can be ascribed to his project, D