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Poetry

The Memory Orchard

By Tim Bowling

Poet Tim Bowling’s first book of poetry, Low Water Slack, was published in 1995. In the nine years since, Bowling has proved himself to be extremely prolific, publishing five subsequent books of poetry, two novels, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ For a Modest God

By Eric Ormsby

Eric Ormsby, born in Atlanta, is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at McGill University, and his poetry has been published in major American and Canadian literary periodicals, and is included in the current Norton ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

UN

By Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee’s new poetry collection, UN, is no book for children. Unless, that is, you think children should be prepared for 21st-century adulthood with frank discussions of cultural brain-death and planetary extinction. These are staggering ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Hello Serotonin

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

Widely prescribed drugs whose names blend the promise of comfort with cold, technological efficiency – Zoloft, Paxil, Xanax – are even now resculpting the contemporary mindscape. All of this offers promising terrain for Hello Serotonin, ... Read More »

April 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Hand to Hand

By Nadine McInnis

Nadine McInnis’s poetic project is to break through “the shell / that separates us” and reveal the interpenetration of ordinary human lives. This is a vernacular poetry that searches for the links that bind us ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry