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After a 1960 film that won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, Erin Lyndal Martin crafts a poem that engages the reader even though they could be lost in abstract, emotion-rich language.
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Maya Jewell Zeller has crafted a poem that fills the reader with a glimpse into a real moment that is living, crisp, and welling over with simplicity, perfection, and grit.
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Heffernan is comfortable letting his reader feel more detached in a poem experience but can quickly ground them again. As though a wave of light passing thought space, the reader, in repeat, rises to meet concrete detail in Heffernan’s work, then descends to the abstract.
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Don’t be fooled by these poems. You might feel familiar ground in Rachel Mehl’s verse, especially her narratives, but don’t be surprised when her perfectly chosen details shake everything apart.
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These poems from Jeremy Halinen give us a haunting and curious reminder of our perfect ability for introspection, how easily we take advantage of our seemingly simple element of consciousness; and of how that can be lost or transcended.
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Marvin Bell ratifies pace in poetry, giving us a lasting and reassuring end-stop on each line. Because of this, his poems lend themselves to surprise, genius, and wonderfully excessive allusion.
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