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Review: Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
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Review: Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall

  • Posted on November 14, 2017January 25, 2018
  • by ME A

Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, Suzette Mayr. Coach House Books (2017). It isn’t often we get to pair “campus novel” with “psychedelic,” yet here we are.…

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Review: Too Much and Not the Mood
  • Essays & Fragments

Review: Too Much and Not the Mood

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 9, 2017
  • by LEC

Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose, HarperCollins Canada (2017) “I have no pen…and not much to say, or rather too much and not the mood,” wrote Virginia Woolf…

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David Bradford on Fred Moten: The Service Porch
  • Poetry & Poetics

David Bradford on Fred Moten: The Service Porch

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 9, 2017
  • by ME A

The Service Porch, Fred Moten, Letter Machine Editions (2016). See, I’m extended contraband and longtime release pharmaceutical gift to the english department. “uc santa barbara and crenshaw follies”   grammar…

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Kim Fu on Claire Messud
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Kim Fu on Claire Messud

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 3, 2017
  • by Sina

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud, W.W. Norton, 2017 Reviewed by Kim Fu Julia Robinson, the protagonist of Claire Messud’s latest novel The Burning Girl, is a study in privilege…

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Kyle Flemmer on Derek Beaulieu: a, A Novel
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Kyle Flemmer on Derek Beaulieu: a, A Novel

  • Posted on November 3, 2017November 3, 2017
  • by ME A

a, A Novel, Derek Beaulieu. Jean Boîte Éditions (2017). As the first entry in Jean Boîte Éditions’ new series of Uncreative Writing, Derek Beaulieu’s lengthy erasure poem a, A Novel…

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Rudrapriya Rathore on Kayla Czaga: For Your Safety Please Hold On
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Rudrapriya Rathore on Kayla Czaga: For Your Safety Please Hold On

  • Posted on May 7, 2015July 17, 2017
  • by gen rob

For Your Safety Please Hold On, Kayla Czaga. Nightwood Editions (2014). Kayla Czaga’s debut collection of poetry, For Your Safety Please Hold On, manages a balance in voice and tone that…

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Kailey Havelock on Karen Connelly: Come Cold River
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Kailey Havelock on Karen Connelly: Come Cold River

  • Posted on April 29, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

Come Cold River. Karen Connelly. Quattro Books (2013). aaaaaaNot a door or a window left of that time aaaaaaNothing to walk back inside aaaaaaonly recollections of people scattered aaaaaaaaaaaaanameless or…

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Hannah Hackney on Suzannah Showler: Failure to Thrive
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Hannah Hackney on Suzannah Showler: Failure to Thrive

  • Posted on April 28, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

Failure to Thrive. Suzannah Showler. ECW Press (2014) There is a common thread running through these poems – fundamentally, the wry, desolate voice – but Showler’s dark debut collection reveals…

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Jacob Wren on Leanne Simpson: Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back & Islands of Decolonial Love
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Jacob Wren on Leanne Simpson: Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back & Islands of Decolonial Love

  • Posted on April 22, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence, Leanne Simpson (ARP Books, 2011)       Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs, Leanne Simpson (ARP…

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David Walker on  Craig Cotter: After Lunch with Frank O’Hara
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David Walker on Craig Cotter: After Lunch with Frank O’Hara

  • Posted on April 16, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

After Lunch with Frank O’Hara, Craig Cotter (Chelsea Station Editions 2014) In 1959, Frank O’Hara published “Personism: A Manifesto”, a tongue-in-cheek essay that, for all its cynicism towards critical prose…

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Mat Laporte on Katy Bohinc: Dear Alain
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Mat Laporte on Katy Bohinc: Dear Alain

  • Posted on February 9, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

Dear Alain, Katy Bohinc. Tender Buttons Press,  2014   Dear Katy, I wrote you once to say I was afraid to review your book because I’m afraid to draw the wrath of…

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Trisha Low on Steven Zultanski’s Bribery and Brandon Brown’s Top 40
  • Poetry & Poetics

Trisha Low on Steven Zultanski’s Bribery and Brandon Brown’s Top 40

  • Posted on January 23, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by gen rob

I guess there are certain things that one is obligated not to talk about in a book review, like one’s personal relationship to the authors of those books one is…

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