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"The planchette on the cover of Tara Bergin's much-anticipated second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx, along with the small illustrations of women and spirits at Ouija boards that sit in the comers, suggest the aloofness with which Bergin herself stands behind her own poems, creating masks and voices, using found texts and stories, in repeated acts of poetic mediumship and invention. At the heart of the book is the suicide in 1898 of Eleanor Marx, sociologist, daughter of Karl Marx, and first translator of Madame Bovary into English. After finding that her partner, Edward Aveling, had secretly married a young actress, Eleanor changed into her favourite summer dress and then killed herself using the same poison as that used by Emma Bovary in Flaubert's novel. In this book, Tara Bergin invokes the voices of Karl Marx's daughters, Edward Aveling, and the characters from Madame Bovary, and she approaches her major themes (love, death, grief) through what the book's epigraph (from Marianne Moore) describes as 'illusion'."—Seán Hewitt, Not Simple or Pretty
   

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Donald Hall, 89
An obituary for the former U.S. poet laureate. (Concord Monitor)
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"What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump?"
Simon Callow reviews Stephen Greenblatt's Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. (The New York Times)

"Fashion It Thus"
Stephen Greenblatt's Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics reviewed by Rhodri Lewis. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"Dreams from Bunker Hill"
Woody Haut reviews Robin Robertson's "The Long Take." (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"Poetry in the age of Brexit"
"David Wheatley reflects on the lyricism of slurry." (The Irish Times)

David McFadden, 77
An obituary for the Canadian poet and travel writer. (The Globe and Mail)

"The Stars Now Rearrange Themselves"
Blank Verse Films presents a reading by Dana Gioia. (Blank Verse Films)

Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust introduces "Epic," by Ange Mlinko. (Women's Voices for Change)

"Terrance Hayes Spins Poems Into Pictures"
"In an attempt to cure myself of the couple hundred poems I wrote entitled "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," I have been making drawings to accompany a few leftover fragments and lines." (The New York Times)

"Self-Portrait With Emily Dickinson (Rebirth of Mourning)"
Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Diane Seuss. (The New York Times)

"Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America"
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes, reviewed by Parul Sehgal. (The New York Times)

"... eventually each locomotive reaches its roundhouse."
Notes Nearing Ninety, by Donald Hall, reviewed by Heller McAlpin. (The Washington Post)

"A Hard Childhood Compressed Into Poetry, With Concision and Heat"
Not Here, by Hieu Minh Nguyen, reviewed by Stephanie Burt. (The New York Times)

TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces a poem by Hal Summers. (The Times Literary Supplement)

"Old wounds"
In his latest "Verse Chronicle," William Logan reviews books by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Edwin Morgan; Ocean Vuong; Douglas Crase; Elizabeth Spires; Karl Kirchwey; and Claudia Emerson. (The New Criterion)

"The right poetry collection for right now"
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes, reviewed by Walton Muyumba. (Los Angeles Times)

Recently Arrived Titles
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• The Glamorganshire Bible, Lynne Viti (Finishing Line Press)
• Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation, Dante Alighieri, tr. W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
• Beyond All Bearing, Susan Delaney Spear (Resource Publications)
• The Neighbor Out of Sound, Jake Marmer (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Wild Horses, Pam Baggett (Main Street Rag)

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