At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
Jennifer Firestone
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An Excerpt from Jennifer Firestone’s Gates & Fields
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected an excerpt from Jennifer Firestone’s Gates & Fields for her bimonthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Popeye, Dopplegängers, and the Sea: Four New Books of Poetry
Unless treating established (even better if dead) authors presented in “collected” volumes, reviewers and editors at mainstream publications tend to shy away from covering contemporary work. Hence this occasional series of comments and speculations about more or less recently published volumes of poetry.
