Monthly Archives: July 2007

Ray McDaniel’s Murder, A Violet

I was cleaning and reorganizing my poetry shelves and every time I see this cover I just have to sit and admire it for many moments. I read a draft of the manuscript the year it won the NPS and … Continue reading

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Kay Ryan’s The Niagara River

I picked this up in 2006 after I found out Kay Ryan was the judge for the Walt Whitman Award, just to see if there was any chance her aesthetic might match mine (The Erotic Postulate was shortlisted for the … Continue reading

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GoodReads

So I joined yet another social site. I think this one is forgivable as it focuses solely on books and gives me a better space to organize my library, plus many of my grad school friends from Michigan are on … Continue reading

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On Sequences and Adrienne Rich’s Dream of a Common Language

I’ve been thinking a lot about sequences lately, those who do them well, my penchant for writing a series or in groupings, as if to truly explore an idea I must sustain that energy over multiple attempts, approaching a topic … Continue reading

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