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5 Poetry Collections From 2020 To Revisit – Chicago Review of Books

5 Poetry Collections From 2020 To Revisit – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsDecember 22, 2020 by Mandana Chaffa
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One of the enduring pleasures of poetry is how like wine, or friendship, it improves as it—and you—age. Re-read the 2019s or the 2000s, or … Read More

Memoir, Poetry, and Climate Change in Felicia Luna Lemus’ “Particulate Matter” – Chicago Review of Books

Memoir, Poetry, and Climate Change in Felicia Luna Lemus’ “Particulate Matter” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsDecember 21, 2020 by Amy Brady
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Burning Worlds is Amy Brady’s monthly column dedicated to examining how contemporary literature interrogates issues of climate change, in partnership with Yale Climate Connections. Subscribe to her monthly … Read More

Poetry, Prose, and Politics in “Make Me Rain” – Chicago Review of Books

Poetry, Prose, and Politics in “Make Me Rain” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 31, 2020 by Mandana Chaffa
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Nikki Giovanni—one of the great poets of any generation—still has much to impart in Make Me Rain, her hybrid autobiography of poems and prose.  Given … Read More

Madness, Civilization, and the Poetry of Violence in Artaud the Mômo – Chicago Review of Books

Madness, Civilization, and the Poetry of Violence in Artaud the Mômo – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 27, 2020 by Joseph Houlihan
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Antonin Artaud was one of the foundational voices in establishing the modern avant garde. His famous writings on The Theater and Its Double, and Theatre … Read More

Unwashed, festering, and still poignant poetry in “Ground Zero” – Chicago Review of Books

Unwashed, festering, and still poignant poetry in “Ground Zero” – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 23, 2020 by Meredith Boe
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Marc Kelly Smith, nicknamed “Slam Papi,” founded international slam poetry in the 1980s when he started the monumental Uptown Poetry Slam series at the Green … Read More

Joy Harjo on the Power of Poetry, and on Building a Comprehensive Canon of Indigenous Poems – Chicago Review of Books

Joy Harjo on the Power of Poetry, and on Building a Comprehensive Canon of Indigenous Poems – Chicago Review of Books

Categories Book ReviewsOctober 16, 2020 by Clancey D'Isa
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“It is poetry that holds the songs of becoming, of change, of dreaming, and it is poetry we turn to when we travel those places … 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

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