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The Carrying by Ada Limón

 Author: Jayda Rodriguez  Published Date: November 10, 2019  Leave a Comment on The Carrying by Ada Limón

Ada Limón’s ​The Carrying introduces a deeply personal collection of poems and is recognized as her boldest work yet. Unlike…

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Review: Michael Schmidt’s Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem

 Author: Kelly Hydrick  Published Date: November 5, 2019  1 Comment on Review: Michael Schmidt’s Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem

LET’S start with a confession: I am a historian and I have never read Gilgamesh. I didn’t read it in…

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Review: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police

 Author: Kelly Hydrick  Published Date: October 28, 2019

IF roses, all roses, suddenly disappeared, would your memory of them fade away as if they had never existed? This…

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Review: Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

 Author: Kelly Hydrick  Published Date: October 23, 2019  3 Comments on Review: Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

Embroiled in a bloody civil war since 2011, Syria has long been subject to coups, repressive regimes, and state sanctioned…

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