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New Poetry by Lou Lipsitznew
If this world falls apart (the winner of the 2010 Blue Lynx Prize) consistently brings the reader to a dark place and then pulls back.
Tags: Lou Lipsitz
Local Poet Jeffery Beam's Latest Volume, Gospel Earthnew
Everything you are not noticing in the natural world has been captured in this book.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
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Poet Patrick Herron's Alter Ego Offers Up a Quirky Collectionnew
Whether the poem concerns a puppet longing to get the words right in love letters or a coded numerolanguage, at their core these verses seem to grapple with our very human programming.
Poems That Marry Domesticity with Wars Abroad in 'Old War'new
In Alan Shapiro's latest book, we find many poems where he masterfully describes what seems to be absolutely nothing.
Chris Vitiello's Linguistic Conundrumsnew
Reading Irresponsibility almost feels as though we've stumbled upon a writer's journal, full of copious note-taking and observation—as Vitiello might describe the process.
Nesting Placesnew
Birdhouses is an unusual book devoted to avian real estate.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
03-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Art of Versenew
Poet Jack Gilbert and artist Henryk Fantazos have created a fun collaborative objet d'art, Song of the Line.
Verbal Landscapes of Durham Poet Tony Tostnew
These poems will not take readers gently by the hand and guide us from point A to point B. We are given breadcrumbs to follow and led deeper and deeper into the forest of Tost's language.
A Nostalgic, Flawed Daniel Boone in Robert Morgan's Biographynew
Morgan fashions Daniel Boone not just as a legendary woodsman, but as a literary and philosophical ideal -- a naturalist -- living the life of Walden before Thoreau ever valorized such ideals.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
11-29-2007 |
Nonfiction
