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The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
You can order the book and determine for yourself if it’s worth the hype here. Image Credit: Penguin Random House. Being a raging nonconformist, I’m immediately skeptical of anything that has accrued heaps and heaps of praise. I went tentatively into Jesus’ Son after reading the 10+ rave reviews in the front cover of my Continue reading
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feeld by Jos Charles
Find the award-winning collection here. Image credit: Milkweed Editions Somehow the unique spelling and language Jos Charles uses throughout feeld is capable of alluding to so many different influences at once while also being completely singular. When I look at the words on these pages, I think of so many things: Chaucerian English, as the Continue reading
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I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
Image credit: Milkweed Editions I have mixed feelings about this poetry collection. On one hand, it addresses a hugely consequential yet underrepresented issue in our society by speaking plainly about opioid addiction. It was selected by Ada Límon, who I, of course, respect deeply. The book has a succinct coldness represented both formally and by Continue reading
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The Poetics of DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
How Don Mee Choi uses docupoetics to explore the Korean War and how it overshadowed South Korea’s own struggle with authoritarianism. War is a paradox. It is incomprehensible, yet the little understanding the general public has of it is that it is the most disastrous and depraved of all human interactions. As civilians, we’ve adopted Continue reading
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Sister Outsider (1984)
Yesterday I finished Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, my first book-length read by the author. Lorde first caught my attention when I read “Uses of the Erotic” in college, and her uniquely poetic prose has stuck with me since. Sister Outsider is incredible in that it is a very approachable text which still manages to Continue reading
