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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

Blue Marrow

By Louise Bernice Halfe

In her second collection of poetry, Saskatchewan’s Louise Bernice Halfe continues an exploration of many of the concerns she addressed in her previous book, Bear Bones & Feathers (1994). Blue Marrow is both a celebration ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

White Stone

By Stephanie Bolster

It’s not unusual for a writer – or indeed a reader – to be obsessed with the life of Alice in Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass, of course). My first thought when ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry