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Berceuse Parish - Burnside Soleil
In what may hold the record for the longest title of a poetry book, Burnside Soleil’s debut collection, The Berceuse International Youth League & The St. Herménégilde Society for General Upkeep & Social Benefaction Presents A Melancholic Fantasia in the Tradition of Lonely Swamp Pop, a Collage of the Culture & Peculiar History of Our Parish as Figured in the Tragicomic Soleil Family, Especially Our Unofficial Town Poet Laureate, Burnside Soleil, in Conjunction with Gus Babineaux, an Historian...
I Do Know Some Things - Richard Siken
[Copper Canyon Press; 2025] Richard Siken’s first poetry book, Crush, remains for many its readers one of the most influential books about desire and panic, even twenty years after its publication. His second book, War of the Foxes, is entirely different in its thematic concerns and poetic approach, attentive to the very heart of artistic creation, delving into what the artistic process takes from an artist when art is ultimately turned over to a populace.
Of Mice and Botflies
On botflies, the white-footed mice they inhabit, and theodicy, with guest appearances by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Ralph Waldo Emerson, I’d like a word—and bring along Henry David, too, because September is National Botfly Month, at least for white-footed mice in the Brockport Woods. Pick up a mature white-footed mouse in September and there’s a decent chance that it will carry one or more botfly larvae nestled in its groin.
Splashed, Toppled, Removed, Shattered | Works on Paper
Introduction We are in the midst of a moment of epochal transformation that started before Charlottesville with the demand that the landscape of American memory, as embodied in figurative public monuments, be reassessed. This has resulted in the alteration of these monuments through additions and removals aiming to correct historical erasures that have resulted in systematic biases extending into the present.
Center for Literary Publishing
Book Review Obscura Poetry By Frank Paino Reviewed By Daniel Lassell Orison Books (2020) 84 pages $16.00 Buy this book In Frank Paino’s long-awaited poetry collection, Obscura, readers are treated to a feast of visceral and utterly haunting poems that interact with each other as artifacts in a museum whose collections span centuries and topics. These poems all have an eye on the oddity of life, the larger story at the heart of ourselves that continually haunts us.
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