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    Michel Butor: The Freedom of Frameworks

    Paul Dean
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    Of Love and Boundaries: Nicholas Pierce’s In Transit

    Peter Vertacnik
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    How a Singer Can Sing in Prose

    John Poch
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    A Singular Presence: On Carmen Bugan’s Poetry and the Language of Oppression: Essays on Politics and Poetics

    George Kalogeris
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    Well Said: New Prose by Daniel Brown

    Kjerstin Kauffman
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    “The beloved spectator who is myself”: Mary Jo Salter, Socially Distanced

    Jane Greer
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    Unended Journeys: Alfred Corn’s The Returns: Collected Poems

    Maryann Corbett
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    “Bodies Pushing Words Beyond the Real”: Four Poets of Cataclysm and Connection

    Jane Satterfield
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    Spells & Structure, Structure, Structure: On C. Dale Young’s Prometeo and Marcia Karp’s If by Song

    Kjerstin Kauffman
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    Impotence and Overripe Grapes: Cultural Decadence in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry

    Patrick Kearney
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    Overripeness Is All: On Dralyuk’s Poetic Premiere

    Sunil Iyengar
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    “What Is There I Will Not Let Go?”: Two New Books by Rachel Hadas

    Jane Greer
  • Essay

    Robbe-Grillet’s Selfies

    Paul Dean
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    In Proximity to Oblivion: A Review of Louise Glück’s Winter Recipes from the Collective

    John Wall Barger
  • Essay

    "A Line that Bears its Leveling Pain": The Craft of George Kalogeris' Winthropos

    Jennifer Clarvoe
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    Not Even the Future’s Like It Used to Be: Rita Dove’s Apocalyptic Anthems

    Brian Brodeur
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    The Monsters and the Translators: Grappling with Beowulf in the Third Millenium

    Maryann Corbett
  • Essay

    Fluent Phrases in a Silver Chain: On Finding Poetry in Song and Song in Poetry

    Ned Balbo
  • Essay

    War Poetry, Political Poetry, and The Invisible Powers

    John Balaban
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    Pain Management: A Review of John Foy’s No One Leaves the World Unhurt

    Joshua Eric Williams
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