Category: April
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The Cruelest Month
Well, I did it. I made it all the way through April and posted a book a day! Probably not a big deal, but it was tough for me since it was such a busy month. Thanks to everyone who posted/sent/commented with encouragement and positive feedback! I’d love to see everybody else’s lists some day…
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The Salt Ecstasies
Could not find a book cover, but perhaps because it is about to be rereleased by Graywolf as part of Mark Doty’s RE/view series that has republished so many great volumes of poetry. I love books by Minneapolis poets. I do not know why. I love them when the poems are set in Minneapolis. It…
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Powerless
How odd, to have googled for an image of this book cover and discovered a photo of myself ca. 2006 among the results. At first I thought this was like a designer imposter version of Frank O’Hara (“If you love O’Hara, you’ll LOVE Tim Dlugos!”). The flighty arrogance, the irreverence, the slight snobbery of knowing…
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Kinky
I can still remember reading this book on the airplane back from an AWP conference. It might be because I wasn’t above playing Barbies with my girl friends when I was a kid that this book really appeals to me. I don’t think it’s limited to the Barbie experience, though–even my G. I. Joe action…
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The Changing Light at Sandover
A book with a Ouija in it. Who knew you could have Ouija in a poem? An abecedarian book. Then, numbers. I love the way the two men in the book are so domestic and loving of each other. It gave me hope for this at a time when I had none. I also love…
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Fuck You — Aloha — I Love You
Here is a book I read that was intellectually interesting, emotionally compelling, and formally distinct from other work I’d been reading. Here is a book that I would consider poetry of rhetoric more than poetry of imagery, although the image of the Hawaiian punk rock singer screaming the title of the book stays with me.…
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