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In Pursuit of Elegance (on Learning Human: Selected Poems by Les Murray; Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai; Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott; The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed by Jane Cooper; Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley; How Things Are by James Richardson; Years Later by Gregory Djanikian; and Different Hours by Stephen Dunn)

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By Judith Kitchen

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The Elegant Dances of Marcel Proust and W. B. Yeats (on Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter; Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox)

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By Edward Butscher

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The Eloquent Wrath of Sylvia Plath (on The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Karen V. Kukil)

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By Greg Johnson

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Horton Hatchets Hitler (on Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear

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By Gerald Weales

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Authoritative Voice (on The Drowning and Other Stories by Edward J. Delaney; The Baby Can Sing and Other Stories by Judith Slater; My Father, Dancing by Bliss Broyard; and Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux)

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By Erin McGraw

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on Other Traditions by John Ashbery

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By L. S. Klatt

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on The Nick Tosches Reader by Nick Tosches

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By Joe Bonomo

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Essays of Our Time and Clime (on The Book of Twentieth-Century Essays, edited by Ian Hamilton and The Best American Essays of the Century, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan)

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By Edward Butscher

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Citizens of Somewhere Else: Memoir and the Place of Place (on More Stories from My Father’s Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Cherry: A Memoir by Mary Karr; and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory by André Aciman)

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By Sanford Pinsker

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on The End of October by Lawrence Wright

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on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

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on Blizzard by Henri Cole

on Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez

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on The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Good Neighbors (on Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and...

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