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Essay: "What [Dickinson's] scraps suggest to me is more radical: they are a unique category of verbal notation, significant both for their literary power and for their physical appearance on the page."
—Dan Chiasson (The New Yorker)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/emily-dickinsons-singular-scrap-poetry

Profile: "Jay Pascua...writes in the ancient form of the CHamoru language and uses precolonial social concepts....[M]any [of his works] are a call to action to perpetuate and protect the CHamoru culture." (The Guam Daily Post)
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https://www.postguam.com/news/local/chamoru-storyteller-s-poems-and-chants-published-abroad/article_dd697dfa-1701-11ea-8476-23419183a7c1.html

Review: "It is tempting to take Carol Ann Duffy for granted...because of her productivity. But reading this small, icy, perfectly formed book – a ballad, a winter’s tale – one is reminded of Duffy’s consistent excellence." (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/08/frost-fair-carol-ann-duffy-david-de-las-heras-review

Review: "Christle is drawn to associations and allusions, preferring to bounce between observations rather than confine herself to a fixed position."
—Jennifer Szalai (The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/books/review-crying-book-heather-christle.html

Recommendations: Aingeal Clare discusses new releases by Karen Solie, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Roger Robinson, and Ciaran Carson. (The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/07/best-reent-poetry-collections-review

Review: "Verdi’s first Shakespeare adaptation, Macbeth, precedes his next, Otello, by forty years, and his artistic growth across those decades makes all the difference." (New York Review of Books)
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/verdi-making-shakespeare-sing/

Review: "Mead’s voice seems as self-certain and as fully realized in her earliest poems...as in the books that follow: pitch-perfect arias that...flow forward in a rising and falling (yet steady) stream of consciousness." —Carol Muske-Dukes (LARB)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/and-then-music-on-the-collected-work-of-the-late-jane-mead/

Essay: "I don’t claim to understand it, the peculiar power of Charles Wright’s poems to suffuse me in their wonders, to quiet me down. Charles has taught me better than to call this prayer. I’d rather let the synapse spark."—Mary Szybist (Lit Hub)
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https://lithub.com/charles-wrights-resistance-against-certainty/

Essay: "There is little in American poetry that anticipates the poems of Samuel Greenberg, and neither the defects of his prosody nor the difficulties he presents to our understanding diminish the power of his lyrical genius." (Harriet)
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/12/poems-from-the-greenberg-manuscripts

Review: "In a letter to Bidart, Lowell called Bishop’s letter 'a kind of masterpiece of criticism, though her extreme paranoia (For God’s sake don’t repeat this) about revelations gives it a wildness.'"
—Langdon Hammer (New York Review of Books)
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/lowell-hardwick-art-of-losing/