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What Is an Anthem
A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.**I asked a person I was in love with to read to me the first poem in Archicembalo, “Who Is Josquin des Prez.” We were...
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Complicit with Everything
A metaphorical review of Tony Hoagland’s Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, in which Johnny Rocket, Britney Spears, and the Saudi Monarchy play a crucial role in American poetry.**I was...
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Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: A Review?
Dear twelve undergraduates assigned to read this text and in search of a digestible synopsis—Dear two lit-crit geeks up late at night who found this by googling John Barth—Dear three writers of...
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Vertigo and Hotel by Joanna Walsh
Remember how John Freeman pegged Elena Ferrante’s novels: “Imagine if Jane Austen got angry”? Remember how the cover of a great Clarice Lispector novel touts her as “the premier Latin American...
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