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Habitats
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Katharine Whitcomb
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, March 10, 2024
In Habitats, Katharine Whitcomb covers vast territories from foreign travel to dreams, from art to terrorism, from language to drugs. With her in her habitats, we dine, swim, hike (“I lumberjack in here…Outside beautiful woods climate/quickly”), work and love. We have memorable encounters, through vivid and sometimes heart-wrenching statements, with Nietzsche and Monet, Stephen Hawking and Anthony Bourdain.
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Not for Luck
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Derek Sheffield
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, April 14, 2021
In the collection Not for Luck, Sheffield’s poems focus on parenting, teaching, trouting and volcanologizing through a Thoreauvian filter to magnify the joy, angst and rapture of dailiness. The book’s forthright humanity captures “the light of a beautiful wound” in a way that precious few books have.
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Nothing Like the Doll You Learned on
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Jan Wallace
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, April 11, 2021
Nothing Like the Doll You Learned On by Jan Wallace relays coming of age in the Atomic Age when all mothers were aproned and lipsticked, their girls skirted and lipglossed, all fathers were followers of mathematics and technology with boys only interested in horsing around. The poet recalls a childhood by counting the ways she was haunted by crows, witches and blindness, counting the miracles of Silly Putty and microfiche. Instead of autumnal beauty, she sees leaves “bruised” by the “fever flush” of fall, meditating on how many ways our bodies turn to ash.
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How We Move Toward Light: New & Selected Poems
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Michael Magee
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, November 23, 2018
Michael Magee adds a bit of 21st century pop culture, a bit of zaniness, a bit of wordplay and a bit of himself to modernize a hero of the Trojan War. With poems like "Odysseus in the Land of Pogo Sticks" and "Odysseus in the Land of Lettuce Eaters," the landscapes they capture reckon German Expressionism with plenty of punchlines.
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The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems
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Fairchild, B. H.
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, August 26, 2014
Recollecting the ache of adolescence, the weariness of work, the solitude of landscapes both external and internal, Fairchild shapes it all into something lark-worthy. If you buy this book, you will return to it often.
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Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest Poems
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B H Fairchild
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, July 24, 2014
No wonder Fairchild has won all those awards; these poems are stunning and uniquely powerful.
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That Thread Still Connecting Us
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Joseph Green
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, July 20, 2014
Rather than a book of elegies, Joseph Green has created a tribute to his father in a way that honors all fathers and all sons. This chapbook wields the impact of a full-length collection because each poem packs a wallop, either with humor or heartache. Readers should also check out his other superb books: The End of Forgiveness, His Inadequate Vocabulary, Deluxe Motel, and Greatest Hits: 1975 -2000.
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One of Seven Billion
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Tim Sherry
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, July 20, 2014
With conversational language and stripped-down wisdom, Tim Sherry's One of Seven Billion is at once intimate and anonymous, revealing and evasive. In a time when many poets seem to value irony and wit, Sherry offers poems that are intelligently solid and emotionally honest. The speaker in many of these poems strikes me as a modern-day relative of William the Poet from the long, allegorical, Christian narrative Piers Plowman of the Middle Ages. He questions without finding answers then accepts that the act of questioning is what each of the seven billion of us must do to exist meaningfully. Posing such impossible questions can be a solitary process but despite the poet's "instinct for loneliness," he creates a community where Claude Monet, John Wayne, Lana Turner, and The man Upstairs meet at the center of the universe to celebrate life, love and the imagination.
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