Wednesday, June 25, 2025

James Shea, _Last Day of My Face_ (1 of 2)

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 JAMES SHEA'S THIRD collection includes a poem, "That's That," about the word "that." It's short, so here is...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, _Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas_, trans. Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Peterson

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 I HAD BEEN meaning to read this for quite a while, and it seemed like a great followup to Zama (see post for May 20). As in Antonio di Ben...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Tommy Orange, _Wandering Stars_

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 IT TOOK ME a while to start appreciating this book. It happened on p. 221, when a couple of the characters are talking about Donnie Darko ....
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Ariana Reines, _The Rose_

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WRITTEN CONCURRENTLY WITH Wave of Blood , perhaps? The Rose is mentioned a time or two in Wave of Blood , so perhaps it was already finishe...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Tommy Pico, _Nature Poem_

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THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK (published 2017), Pico explains why he doesn't want to write a nature poem. I can't write a nature poem bc it...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

David Keenan, _This Is Memorial Device_

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I WANTED TO read this the very minute I read a description of it in a review of one of Keenan's more recent books. This Is Memorial Devi...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Philip C. Almond, _Mary Madalene: A Cultural History_

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AS THE SUBTITLE alerts us, Almond is interested not only in the woman identified in the gospels as the the first person (or one of the first...