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Sonic Relationships and Semantic Rhythms in “Field Music” – Chicago Review of Books

Sonic Relationships and Semantic Rhythms in “Field Music” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 16, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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Alexandria Hall’s National Poetry Series-winning book, Field Music, possesses a poetic maturity born less from extensive experience than from piercing vision and sensitivity. Hall, a … Read More

Knocking Poetry Off Its Pedestal in “The Math Campers” – Chicago Review of Books

Knocking Poetry Off Its Pedestal in “The Math Campers” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsSeptember 30, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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An extraordinary, often mesmerizing engagement with the nature of identity and other existential trappings, The Math Campers, Dan Chiasson’s new collection of poetry, is a … Read More

Solitude and Remembrance in “Middle Distance” – Chicago Review of Books

Solitude and Remembrance in “Middle Distance” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsAugust 19, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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Stanley Plumly—author of eleven books of poetry, four books of nonfiction, Maryland poet laureate, professor, and winner of numerous literary prizes—died of multiple myeloma in … Read More

The Duress of Solitude in Karen Solie’s “The Caiplie Caves” – Chicago Review of Books

The Duress of Solitude in Karen Solie’s “The Caiplie Caves” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJuly 16, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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In the wildlands of the North – in Canada, on the Scottish seaboard near Fife, on the cold, metaphysical plains of the isolated soul – … Read More

A Meditation on Noticing in “A Memory of the Future” – Chicago Review of Books

A Meditation on Noticing in “A Memory of the Future” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsJune 24, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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Eihei Dōgen Zenji—the Japanese founder of what remains one of the most vital sects within Zen Buddhism, the Sōtō school—wrote the Sansui kyō, the “Mountains … Read More

Mourning and Reminiscing in “So Forth” – Chicago Review of Books

Mourning and Reminiscing in “So Forth” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMay 20, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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Upon initial inspection, the title of Rosanna Warren’s latest collection of poetry, So Forth, might seem like the self-deprecating wave of a too-weary hand: I’ve … Read More

Coming of Age in “Sin Eater” – Chicago Review of Books

Coming of Age in “Sin Eater” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsApril 8, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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Megan Campisi’s novel Sin Eater introduces us to an alternate universe, one reminiscent in many ways of Tudor England, in which certain food items are eaten for … Read More

Every Kind of Love Going – Chicago Review of Books

Every Kind of Love Going – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsMarch 26, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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It’s a dream many of us have had. Stepping through the gauzy curtains of the subconscious, we emerge in an unfamiliar place — a school, … Read More

A Struggle for Faith, for Understanding, for Acceptance – Chicago Review of Books

A Struggle for Faith, for Understanding, for Acceptance – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsFebruary 13, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen
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At the beginning of his latest collection of poetry, Survival Is A Style, Christian Wiman lays out the territory that serves as the setting for … Read More

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