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Book Review: Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
by Maggie Trapp Praying Drunk By Kyle Minor Sarabande Books. 196 pp. $15.95 Kyle Minor subtitled his new book “stories, questions,” and this volume is just that. Praying Drunk, which takes its title...
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Book Review: Vulgar Remedies by Anna Journey
by Maggie Trapp Vulgar Remedies By Anna Journey Louisiana State University Press. 88 pp. $17.95 Anna Journey’s new collection of poems, Vulgar Remedies, startles with its lucid, lovely, electric...
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Book Review: Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
by Maggie Trapp Like a Beggar By Ellen Bass Copper Canyon Press. 70 pp. $16 Ellen Bass’s poems are at once crushing and uplifting. The feeling you take away after reading her newest collection, Like a...
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Our new Book Review feature is looking for books to review! With the addition Maggie Trapp to the Extract(s) team as our poetry reviewer, we are ready to receive your suggested titles for review. Email...
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Book Review: Practicing the Truth by Ellery Akers
by Maggie Trapp Practicing the Truth By Ellery Akers Autumn House Press. 82 pp. $17.95 Ellery Akers’s poems are so pointed they hurt. Her newest collection, Practicing the Truth, is full of precisely...
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Book Review: The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield
by Maggie Trapp The Beauty By Jane Hirshfield Alfred A. Knopf. 112 pp. $26.00 In her new collection of poems, much-loved poet Jane Hirshfield writes in a way that is subtle and staggering. Hirshfield...
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Book Review: Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon
by Maggie Trapp Fiddle is Flood By Lauren Gordon Blood Pudding Press. 26 pages. $7.00 There’s a certain way of growing up American, and it includes reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books. If you remember...
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Book Review: The Conversation by Judith Barrington
by Maggie Trapp The Conversation By Judith Barrington Salmon Poetry. 78 pages. $21 It can’t be an accident that the word revenant shows up, by my count, three different times in Judith Barrington’s...
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