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Matthew Sweeney

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Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he...

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography

Richard Fletcher and Johanna Hanink

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What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and...

Whispering Moments: Inspirations

Nader Angha

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This book of poems glimpses into our own soul --- our moments of tenderness, of love, of insight ---...

Patti Smith recommended After Nature in Books (curated)

After Nature

W.G. Sebald | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

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"At one time the three lengthy poems in this slim volume had such a profound effect on me that I could hardly bear to read them. Scarcely would I enter their world before I’d be transported to a myriad of other worlds."

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Garth Greenwell recommended Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 in Books (curated)

Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006

Carl Phillips | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+, Romance

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"Wildness and control are recurring themes in Phillips’s brilliant poems, and they play out too in his winding, meticulous, everywhere self-interrogating syntax. He is our metaphysical poet, using the desiring, sexual body to ask poetry’s eternal questions in distinctively contemporary ways"

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Garth Greenwell recommended Desire in Books (curated)

Desire

Frank Bidart | 1997 | Fiction & Poetry

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"In my personal canon, Frank Bidart is the gold standard, the most important living American writer. His discomfiting poems delve into extremes of emotion that would defeat almost any other writer. Fearless, brilliant, they remind me what the stakes of art should be."

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