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Deceptive Yet Ultimately Fitting: James Reiss on Simone Muench’s Orange Crush
Orange Crush, Simone Muench, Sarabande Books, 2010 On first looking into Simone Muench’s “Orange Crush,” I can’t say that I felt like stout Cortez staring out at the Pacific. Reading Muench’s first po… more →
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Deceptive Yet Ultimately Fitting: James Reiss on Simone Muench's Orange Crush
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wrote 2 years ago: Orange Crush, Simone Muench, Sarabande Books, 2010 On first looking into Simone Muench’s “Orange Cru … more →
The Heart of a Boy: James Reiss on Tim Hunt's Fault Lines
wrote 3 years ago: Fault Lines, Tim Hunt, The Backwaters Press, 2009 For nearly 30 years Tim Hunt has been toiling in t … more →
They Dreamed Their Words Would Last a Thousand Years: James Reiss on Jay W. Baird's Hitler's War Poets
wrote 3 years ago: Hitler’s War Poets: Literature and Politics in the Third Reich, Jay W. Baird, Cambridge University P … more →
With More Than a Little Bit of Care: James Reiss on Judith Valente's Discovering Moons
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wrote 3 years ago: Discovering Moons, Judith Valente, Virtual Artists Collective, 2009 A journalist’s commitment to fac … more →
Not What I Call a Hail-Fellow-Well-Met-Person: James Reiss on Wallace Stevens's Selected Poems
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wrote 3 years ago: Selected Poems, Wallace Stevens, Edited by John N. Serio, Alfred A. Knopf Of the three canonical Ame … more →
WALKING THROUGH THAT VALLEY: James Reiss on Jonathan Thirkield's The Waker's Corridor
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wrote 3 years ago: The Waker’s Corridor, Jonathan Thirkield, Louisiana State University Press I. A poet in his mid-thir … more →
QUALITY OF HIS HARVESTS: James Reiss on David Baker's Never-Ending Birds
wrote 3 years ago: Never-Ending Birds, David Baker, W. W. Norton Reading David Baker’s ninth book of poems is like step … more →
Another Mother: James Reiss on Rebecca Wolff’s The King
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wrote 3 years ago: The King, Rebecca Wolff, W. W. Norton & Company For the past two hundred years young poets have … more →
City-of-the-Broad-Shoulders Bard: James Reiss on Mark Perlberg's Waiting for the Alchemist
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wrote 3 years ago: Waiting for the Alchemist, Mark Perlberg, Louisiana State University Press June 23, 2009 marked the … more →
A Departure from the Midwest Sojourn: James Reiss on BH Fairchild's Usher
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wrote 3 years ago: Usher, B. H. Fairchild, W. W. Norton & Company A few years ago in an Introduction to Poetry cour … more →
Can't Get Enough Fun: James Reiss on Philip Appleman's Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie
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wrote 4 years ago: Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie, Philip Appleman, Illustrations by Arnold Roth, Foreword by X.J. Ke … more →
