"Lauren Camp’s newest collection Took House is a multitude. Hawks, owls,
coyotes, ravens mix with Georgia O’Keefe, Donald Judd, and Annie Leibovitz.
Minimal yet soaring. Cemented in time and form yet fluid. There are love
poems, avant-garde experiments, prose chunks, fre...
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Ten years after Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco returns with yet another
masterpiece, Paying the Land. "A tour de force . . . luminous . . . Joe
Sacco's large-scale panels teem with detail, visual and verbal . . . What
begins as an exploration of the effects of fracking on...
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"I don’t know of any other writer who can render the brutality of life with
such honesty and dazzle. . . . That Lidia Yuknavitch can create such beauty
out of the tragedy of contemporary life is testament to her skill as an
artist. Verge is volatile and vital, and it hit...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Judith Arcana, author of the new book of stories
Hello. This is Jane, published by Oregon’s Left Fork Press.
Judith writes poems, stories, essays, and books. Her work includes a
biography of Grace Paley – titled Grace Paley’s Life Stories – the
po...
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Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict,
Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and
activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography
through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Tou...
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