Poetry
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Mini Reviews: Warming up with poetry
Despite it being almost March, it is still solidly winter where I live (it is, in fact, snowing as I write this). I’ve been filling my pockets of spare time with copious amounts of knitting — and, when my focus allows, reading. Here are a handful of poetry collections I’ve read that have made the Continue reading
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What I read in April (belatedly)
Somehow it’s already mid-May, and the reading outside season has fully begun where I live. I figured it was high time to chat about the books I read in April. Saving Time by Jenny Odell. I read Odell’s prior book How to Do Nothing a few years ago and loved it. While I didn’t enjoy Continue reading
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MEMORIAL by Alice Oswald | Review
In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little Continue reading
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THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS by Rupi Kaur | Review
Recently I read this Guardian article by Priya Khaira-Hanks that speaks about the controversy surrounding Rupi Kaur as an “instapoet” who has supposedly lowered the bar when it comes to the quality of publishable poetry. Kaur’s poetic style is often parodied with the intended implication being that anyone could write such simple, mundane lines. Despite Continue reading
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Poevember: THE RAVEN
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…” So begins one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous works, “The Raven.” This poem tells the tale of a man who is visited by a talking raven, who only speaks one unsettling word again and again. As the narrator gradually descends into insanity, the Continue reading
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