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Electric Lavender for Automatic Honey
David Orr highlights his best poetry books of the year. In particular, he selects those that have not yet attracted the attention they deserve. Devin Johnson's collection, he notes, "is quiet, emotionally reserved and a marvel of technical prowess. These three qualities are currently almost as scarce in the American poetry world as Peloton bikes."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dustin Pearson on Jillian Weise's "Beautiful Freak Show"
“Up until encountering Jillian’s poetry, I’d more or less repressed or compartmentalized the emotions I felt as a result of my marginalization and always ultimately unsuccessful assimilation, both for fear of how dangerous I thought it was to indulge those emotions and out of societally formed habit. I found a way to misplace, overlook, or normalize horrible things, even if I always survived them." |
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