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In Santa Barbara I got to sit on my resort room’s balcony, shirtless, in the sun, with Ms. Denise Duhamel. Er, her latest book, that is. Two By Two is a sort of uneven collection for me, but I think there are several really arresting gems in the work. The collection opens with Duhamel doing…
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1. My blood is thin and I do now always crave heat. At the beach it means I’ll carry a sweater. 2. Humidity is death. 3. On vacation you need less and get more. Less sleep, less water, less rescuing. The hours fill up on everything, or just nothing. 4. Santa Barbara is really one…
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In this cage this week were Dana Levin and Juliana Spahr. vs. Although I enjoyed a few of Levin’s pieces (namely “Ars Poetica” and “Glass Heart”), Levin’s work as represented in the book seems to skim along the surface of the world rather than tie itself to it. Stephanie and I both agreed that Levin…
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