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Reading Emerging Poetries It was nearly impossible to distill this down to just seven titles…I was going to have the class pick on the first day, but I was encouraged to choose in advance since books can be difficult to get. Want, Rick BarotInto Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, Catherine BarnettBouquet of Hungers, Kyle
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Silver Spring, MD—A local man has created a significant media buzz simply by—finally—finishing a book he’d been reading. Charles Jensen of Silver Spring recently declared triumphantly, “Oh my god!” as he set down his slightly worn copy of National Book Award nominee Joshua Ferris’s novel Then We Came to the End. “I felt like I’d
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From the Los Angeles Times: Yet it’s foolish, self-defeating even, to pretend that books are innocuous, that we don’t need to concern ourselves with what they say. If that’s the case, then it doesn’t really matter if we ban them, because we have already stripped them of their power. Books do change things: Just think
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“I’m encouraged by the process of book banning. As long as people want to ban books, it tells me they still recognize literature’s ability to educate, to challenge, and to provoke.” I recently saw a display of banned books in a bookstore, with a small tag describing the book as banned for “social,” “political,” or
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This slick little site just popped up on my radar. What do you all think? WEbook is a revolutionary online book publishing company, which does for the industry what American Idol did for music. (Modestly speaking, of course.) Welcome to the home of groundbreaking User-Generated Books. WEbook is the vision of a few occasionally erudite
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My review of the British publication of Dan Chiasson’s Natural History and Other Poems is on display over at Eyewear: Chiasson’s work can be characterized by a deep, entrenched sadness. Poems frequently find themselves, sometimes inexplicably, worrying the concepts of death, decomposition, departure—even the implication of death, what Chiasson refers to as “the kitsch /
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