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Reader’s Diary: Juliana Spahr’s ‘That Winter the Wolf Came’
Poetry not always but periodically seeks its upper limit — music, as readers of Louis Zukofsky know — and that includes Juliana Spahr’s.
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Reader’s Diary: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘The Long Road of Sand’
Sometimes you get to know writers best in their minor works; a commissioned text can disclose more than an obsessively personal project.
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Reader’s Diary: Bernadette Mayer’s 'Sonnets'
My editors asked me for notes on books I’d been reading — about three hundred words. I’ve already figured out that it’s not in me to be quite that concise.
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Reader’s Diary: Jaimy Gordon’s 'Lord of Misrule'
Jaimy Gordon passed through my field of vision some time in the early 1980s.