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Joshua Beckman: The Inside of an Apple

Matthew Buckley Smith Not every hour calls for a poem, not every sensation, every mood. Some want only a walk…

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Domain of Perfect Affection

Marianne Cotugno On its cover, Robin Becker’s sixth collection features images of postage stamps for imagined countries created by Donald…

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Jeffrey Bean: Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Catherine Bull In terms of both the geography and the straightforward diction in which his work is rooted, Jeffrey Bean…

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Austin Allen: Pleasures of the Game

Maryann Corbett Pleasures of the Game is Austin Allen’s debut collection and the eleventh winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, in…

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Jonathan Galassi: Left-Handed; John FitzGerald: The Mind; David St. John: The Auroras

Diann Blakely Jonathan Galassi: Left-Handed; John FitzGerald: The Mind; David St. John: The Aurorasby Galassi, FitzGerald, and St. John (Omnibus)0000…

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Two Poets, Both Alike in Dignity: A review of Paul Muldoon’s One Thousand Things Worth Knowing and Joseph Harrison’s Shakespeare’s Horse

Aaron Poochigian Two poets, both alike in age and erudition, both accomplished: one as famous as poets in the 21st…

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