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Category: Reviews of books & poems

November 14, 2019 Reviews of books & poems

book reviews with unexpected style

The review is a sketch. It delighted me, as I was already curious about inventive ways to respond to the books we read. I had written a nontraditional review to an essay collection a couple years back, but I had no idea what else was out there. With this blog post, I attempt to correct that.

February 27, 2016 READING NOTES / Reviews of books & poems

SAD MATH: This is for you / who do not fear

When a poet can pull off intimacy and distance at once, the poems stand out as something truly remarkable. Sad Math by Sarah Freligh is full of poems like that. As Sandra Meek says in a blurb at the book’s beginning, these poems are “nervy and frank, hilarious and heartbreaking.”

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