Kent Shaw
@kentdshaw.bsky.social
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Second book: Too Numerous (UMass Press, 2019). CW Prof (Wheaton College in MA). US Navy veteran.
"His poems belong to whatever space is carved when the world, or the place youâre from, or the dominant culture, sets a fire, and everywhere you look, it rings around your existence." from my goodreads review of Isaac Pickell's It's not over once you figure it out
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Kent's review of It's not over once you figure it out
5/5: Iâm always at the mercy of that William Wordsworth poem, âThe World Is Too Much With Us.â Like the title alone serves as refrain for all my discontents, or feelings in general, or just navigating...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8067866517
6 days ago
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"In essence, the poems fashion the self as a delicate formation. Someone whoâs in process, in transition to a new outlook on life, with a new self to do that looking." from my goodreads review of Shelley Wong's As She Appears
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Kent's review of As She Appears
4/5: There is a focus of self in Shelley Wongâs As She Appears. Like a self can be constructed in sentimental ways. A sensuality to independence. Itâs common to note how pleasurable it is to learn who...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8049642362
13 days ago
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"Nordgrenâs book is hard for me to describe. Maybe itâs writing that got caught in costume. Dressed as a period piece for a fashion magazine." from my goodreads review of Sarah Rose Nordgren's Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer's Journal
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Kent's review of Feathers
5/5: Nordgrenâs book is hard for me to describe. Maybe itâs writing that got caught in costume. Dressed as a period piece for a fashion magazine. Maybe itâs an occasional notebook for inscribing obser...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8031924014
20 days ago
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"Itâs like Ashbery wants you to combine a lava lamp with a villanelle. First, a line with an imaginative twist on a present circumstance, and by the next line itâs morphed into a different shape." from my goodreads review of Hotel LautrĂ©amont, by John Ashbery
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Kent's review of Hotel Lautréamont
4/5: I donât think it had occurred to me why I should read Ashbery through Wallace Stevens before this book. Like poetic history is clear that the two are connected, and I could see the sense to it. B...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8017035449
26 days ago
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"The relationship between irony and wonder often feels uneven to me. Irony is so tall, incisive, and imposing on a sentence or a poem" from my goodreads review of Rosmarie Waldrop's The Nick of Time
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Kent's review of The Nick of Time
5/5: The relationship between irony and wonder often feels uneven to me. Irony is so tall, incisive, and imposing on a sentence or a poem. Yes, I appreciate what irony can bring to a moment. But often...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7974325365
about 1 month ago
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"In Zhouâs book, the triangulation is more sustained. Which allows for especially evocative commentary on who she perceives herself to be, and who she is now after the different pressures that come with adulthood." from my goodreads review of Amelia Zhou's Repose
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Kent's review of Repose
5/5: How is the self formed? And should this self-actualization be staged as a form-ing process or a formationed reality? These, to me, are the underlying questions of Amelia Zhouâs book. Like how poe...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7950875529
about 2 months ago
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"In here, doing-ness revolves mainly around the temporality or shapeliness of an impression. What it takes to experience a moment, while many other moments inflect upon your experience of that moment." from my goodreads review of Bill Carty's We Sailed on the Lake
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Kent's review of We Sailed on the Lake
5/5: There is a shape to the poetic impressions in Bill Cartyâs We Sailed on the Lake. A shape like a lake, I suppose. If you think of âshapeâ as what a lake looks like when youâre watching the mist h...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7937611471
about 2 months ago
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If you like clowns of all sorts, Sreshtha Sen's poem, "Exceprt from Crown Clown[ed]" (originally in Action, Spectacle) is for you. I was definitely feeling it, so I wrote a close read.
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"Excerpt from Clown Crown[ed]," by Sreshtha Sen - theKalliope
A close reading of Sreshtha Sen's poem, "Excerpt from Crown Clown[ed]." Published originally in Action, Spectacle.
https://thekalliope.org/excerpt-from-clown-crowned-by-srestha-sen/
2 months ago
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"One of the challenges to life is knowing how to treat the mundane like itâs meaningless. Which is why I would say Ashbery is resigned to letting LOTS just be his life." from my book review of John Ashbery's Can You Hear, Bird
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Let's expansive the mundane! - theKalliope
A book review of John Ashbery's book Can You Hear, Bird.
https://thekalliope.org/lets-expansive-the-mundane/
2 months ago
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"Is the poet's childhood authentic in the way she has learned authenticity from outside sources? From friends or even acquaintances she remembers meeting once, which she describes in âA Lunch Date.â" from my goodreads review of Jennifer Chang's An Authentic Life
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Kent's review of An Authentic Life
5/5: What I have often admired in Changâs work is this central lyric concern. Or a fountain of lyric thinking that starts, say, with a juxtaposition between âoceanâ and âanonymity.â That generates a l...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7891008528
2 months ago
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"Bolsoverâs book is like the sharp inquisitive stance Anne Carson maintains about Greek mythology, but lay that inquisition on this bed of striking red petals. from my goodreads review of Tessa Bolsover's Crane
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Kent's review of Crane
5/5: The argument for poetry or lyric sensibility can require many words, sometimes arranged so the wording feels less like words, or maybe it feels more like words. Poetry can be wordy. Lyric prose c...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7879226053
3 months ago
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"With pringle, though, itâs the membrane between self and outside the self. The social pressures that come when an individual thinks, I might be belonging to a âweâ right now.â from my goodreads review of kathryn l. pringle's Obscenity for the Advancement of Poetry
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Kent's review of obscenity for the advancement of poetry
4/5: There will always be a struggle and a contradiction when youâre trying to understand a self, especially your own self. Because while you might center on what makes yourself a self viewing itself,...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7868444207
3 months ago
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"The book is concerned with darkness, coupled with the perspective clouded by how familiar the poet is with this darkness." from my goodreads review of John Sibley Williams's Skin Memory
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Kent's review of Skin Memory
4/5: Thereâs a structure to the present. Or thereâs a significance felt in the present moment that can feel like poetry, and for John Sibley Williamsâs book, feeling poetry implies there is a poetic s...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7860902556
3 months ago
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"I am bought in to the bookâs overarching concept, its keen interest in cybernetics and AI. Its inquiry into human experience. How much of being human involves occupying the natural world?" from my goodreads review of Olga Ravn's The Employees
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Kent's review of The Employees
4/5: Books with subjects and definite intentions on saying something about the subject can be difficult for me to read. Like On Walden Pond Henry David Thoreau: Walden Henry Thoreau, difficult to read...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7831312472
3 months ago
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"Xanax Cowboy is as much an extended monologue of mistaken identity as they are a WTF is this identity Iâm being mistaken for. And, yes, there is outrage compelling the poems forward." from my goodreads review of Hannah Green's Xanax Cowboy
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Kent's review of Xanax Cowboy
5/5: Hannah Green is such a poser. Or Xanax Cowboy is. Or the âHannah Greenâ whoâs made this character to explain her life as a young adult. Whatever term you think fits when a poet invents a persona,...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7806130358
3 months ago
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I think T. S. Eliot's "First Voice" vs "Second Voice" can provide an interesting angle for reading Rodney Gomez's poem, "Genealogy" (found originally at The Boiler). Or that's what I'm talking about here:
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"Genealogy," by Rodney Gomez - theKalliope
A close reading of Rodney Gomez's poem, "Genealogy," originally published in The Boiler
https://thekalliope.org/genealogy-by-rodney-gomez/
4 months ago
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"Willisâs book privileges the frayed edges of historical record. It's like visiting an archive, and youâve been sifting through materials for the whole day, and now itâs everywhere on the table." from my goodreads review of Elizabeth Willis's Liontaming in America
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Kent's review of Liontaming in America
5/5: After reading Willisâs book, Iâm personally convinced an official start to human history can be located by those who are persistent enough. Everyone knows what it is. Just look behind you, like a...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7794457817
4 months ago
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I feel like I also could have said Abigail Chabitnoy's "Hawking Rabbit Feet in the Age of Disbelief" uses an organic form to uncover its argument. I said this instead.
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"Hawking Rabbit Feet in the Age of Disbelief," by Abigail Chabitnoy - theKalliope
A close reading of Abigail Chabitnoy's poem, "Hawking Rabbit Feet in the Age of Disbelief." Originally found in Summer 2023 Action, Spectacle
https://thekalliope.org/hawking-rabbit-feet-in-the-age-of-disbelief-by-abigail-chabitnoy/
4 months ago
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"Letâs face it, Ashbery is the most there poet there is. The poetics of suddenly realizing, but burying all that sudden realization in rhetoric so that itâs not all the time clear there was a there there." from my goodreads review of John Ashbery's April Galleons
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Kent's review of April Galleons
5/5: Thereâs a wisdom to knowing how much of the world around you might be available to you, and how much more of it will merely exist. Trees in blossom. Your uncertainty which of the days it will be ...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7767463814
4 months ago
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What I really enjoy about Stefania Gomez's poem "Wreck" is its occupation of a between. It can be silly. It can be somber. And it's the occupation between those I'm trying to write about on my blog.
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"Wreck," by Stefania Gomez - theKalliope
There is this line in the middle of Stefania Gomezâs poem, Wreck. Sheâs referring to these firemen who were at the scene of her car wreck, and she says they couldnât manage fear. I think this speaks t...
https://thekalliope.org/wreck-by-stefania-gomez/
4 months ago
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I'd like to think this is a fair, critical reading of Emily Lee Luan's book, Return. And what I mean by critical is I register my delight that the book accomplishes its ambition.
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Sorrow, Framed: A book review for Emily Lee Luan's Return - theKalliope
I have an initial review of Emily Lee Luanâs Return at goodreads. But Iâve thought to further elaborate on it after my close reading of the bookâs final poem, âFrom weeping into weeping.â Emily Lee Lu...
https://thekalliope.org/sorrow-framed-a-book-review-for-emily-lee-luans-return/
4 months ago
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"A city can serve an individualâs ennui, and within that flat affect can exist the urge to say something new, to notice someone who would have gone overlooked, or to stir a fantasy." from my goodreads review of Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen
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Kent's review of Paris Spleen
5/5: What is a city? Which seems like a sensible question. But itâs not. Because there are ways a city is what people want to find in a city. In many of Baudelaireâs prose poems, he alludes to the spe...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7746514321
4 months ago
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Kim Andrews
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Hi yes the coda of my book touches upon this as well as like three articles I have recently written about the inefficiency of humanistic study!! I will be annoying about this forever probably!
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Submissions OPEN for the Wisconsin Poetry Series
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! Daniel Borzutzky is this year's judge for the Wisconsin Translation Prize! Airea D. Matthews for the Brittingham and Pollak Prize. Finalists are also chosen for publication!
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"Because so much of this book smells. Like if youâre going to read it, prepare to be nauseous. Prepare to laugh at how the world is." from my goodreads review of Kim Hyesoon's All the Garbage of the World, Unite!
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Kent's review of All the Garbage of the World, Unite!
5/5: Something happened here. Something got stuck in a hole. Something sick. Like how garbage is sick. Like some people might talk about having baggage from previous relationships, and it feels like a...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7726199154
4 months ago
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Reading Emily Lee Luan's "From weeping into weeping," I realize how impressionable I am. It's like I want to give in to as many readings as I think the poem suggests. I talk about that in this blog post:
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"From weeping into weeping," by Emily Lee Luan - theKalliope
What surprises me about Emily Lee Luanâs poem âFrom weeping into weepingâ (found in her book Return (Nightboat, 2023)) is how sadness is present for the poet. Like the poem is definitely sad, and it p...
https://thekalliope.org/from-weeping-into-weeping-by-emily-lee-luan/
4 months ago
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"I read the book like Iâm reading the B-sides of Letters to Wendyâs. And to be specific, the B-sides of Dead Letter Office to Document that happened with REM over the Amnesiac to Kid A of Radiohead." from my goodreads review of Joe Wenderoth's It Is If I Speak
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Kent's review of It Is If I Speak
4/5: Itâs hard for me not to read this in the context of the year 2000. The year Wenderoth had published Letters to Wendyâs with Verse Press. A book that got a lot of attention, and, I would argue, co...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7711283694
5 months ago
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"Think of how every rose has its thorns, think of each thorn as a dimension, then think of de Parryâs imagination tangling the thorniness into a network of situations." from my goodreads review of Zan de Parry's Cold Dogs
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Kent's review of Cold Dogs
4/5: Zan de Parry is invested in whatever teaching moment poetry is capable of. Like a poem could be a poem with a rose or it could be a rose-colored poem, and de Parry is going to lead you to drink a...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7700187406
5 months ago
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I posted a book review for
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A Movie's Affect: A book review of Alisha Dietzman's Sweet Movie - theKalliope
A book review for Alisha Dietzman's Sweet Movie (Beacon, 2023)
https://thekalliope.org/a-movies-affect-a-book-review-of-alisha-dietzmans-sweet-movie/
5 months ago
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"Like a long sentence provides mimetic access to the poetâs personal comfort, a personal quiet, and then what he might do with all that." I probably don't understand Ron Silliman's "Quietism." But in close reading Jeff Stonic's poem, "oscillating," I attempt to some.
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"oscillating," by Jeff Stonic - theKalliope
A close reading of Jeff Stonic's poem, "oscillating." Originally published in Denver Quarterly.
https://thekalliope.org/oscillating-by-jeff-stonic/
5 months ago
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"I would argue the speaker in Apology for Want is like a version of Elizabeth Bishop preparing the way for Mary Jo Bangâs Louise, who appears in her second book, Louise in Love." from my goodreads review of Mary Jo Bang's Apology for Want
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Kent's review of Apology for Want
5/5: Reading this book, Iâm reminded that Mary Jo Bang was a photographer before publishing this book. Itâs something in my Bang readings that I wish I would have realized earlier. Because it speaks m...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7664343198
5 months ago
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"Is it viable to live life in a state that passes between "that's it!â and âthatâs it?" A poetry of simply dealing with things." My close reading of Stephanie Cawley's poem, "Brutal Fiction" Published in Bennington Review):
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"Brutal Fiction," by Stephanie Cawley - theKalliope
A close reading of Stephanie Cawley's poem, "Brutal Fiction." Published in a recent issue of Bennington Review.
https://thekalliope.org/brutal-fiction-by-stephanie-cawley/
5 months ago
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"Thatâs the poetry of Dykstraâs book. The awareness of place, the commitment to accuracy, like a map is accurate, and the natural, observational statement a map makes." from my goodreads review of Kristin Dykstra's Dissonance
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Kent's review of Dissonance
5/5: If you were to map a poem, or you were to lay a poem over a map, so you could see the contours and roadways beneath the paper. So, if it were a map of the foothills, where youâre living, or youâv...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7648637089
5 months ago
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"I've always liked thinking that sin isn't really that sinful in the eyes of God, because when I sin, I'm conscious of God. Godâs on my mind." from my thoughts on
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's poem "Yet." It is assuredly sinful to read the poem. Proceed with caution!
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"Yet," by Alisha Dietzman - theKalliope
Iâve always liked thinking that sin isnât really that sinful in the eyes of God, because when I sin, Iâm conscious of God. Godâs on my mind. Iâm disobeying âHim.â Like in Alisha Dietzmanâs poem, âYet,...
https://thekalliope.org/yet-by-alisha-dietzman/
5 months ago
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"...these historic poems think about the various ways history can be viewed in the present. About visiting historical sites, and the difference between those that have been tamped down by tourist activities..." from my goodreads review of Patty Nash's Walden Pond
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Kent's review of Walden Pond
5/5: There are clear issues to data in the 21st century. Data as singular pieces of information, that is. The impulse to combine data. Or amalgamate it. Or chart it. Or arrange it in a play, but itâs ...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7640385003
5 months ago
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"If reading for what goes through someoneâs mind while they anticipate satisfying othersâ needs, and kind of ânot giving a fuckâ about what people in the suburbs say, this book is for you." from my goodreads review of Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County
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Kent's review of A Queen in Bucks County
5/5: Be careful reading Kay Gabrielâs book. Especially if youâre a man, because youâre probably used to hearing how most men think with their dick. And this Turner in Gabrielâs book is definitely thin...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7635490827
5 months ago
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"It puts me in mind of the sharp, mysterious gestures violence reveals in the book. It directs the poem to a consciousness the poet has of her body." from my goodreads review of Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat
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Kent's review of Judas Goat
4/5: I think there is a challenge to writing the poetry of âwhere Iâm from.â Because its narrative has been shorthanded by the poet. Like childhood and origins can operate inside people like a persona...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7614388956
6 months ago
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"To read Robertson's book is to participate in the present tense, and at the margins of inquiry, and to actively fray statements that might sound like questions." from my goodreads review of Lisa Robertson's Boat
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Kent's review of Boat
5/5: What is the nature of subjectivity. Fashioned as statement, but grammared as question. Does it make the sentence an active verb in the present moment. What is intimate space compared to subjectiv...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7603212260
6 months ago
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"Philomath is more knowing the consequences of parental love. Especially how itâs suffocating the way you might imagine incubation is suffocating." from my goodreads review of Devon Walker-Figueroa's Philomath
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Kent's review of Philomath
5/5: There is mythology that is like embodied knowledge. That is like knowing when itâs the most emphasized part of a sentence, like in the sentence, âShe was very knowing.â And this is Walker-Figuero...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7586948257
6 months ago
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"He writes an âOde to No,â as in the No that everyone is saying to everyone in the current climate. The No of denial. But also the No of contrariety..." from my goodreads review of Matthew Cooperman's the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless
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Kent's review of The atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless
4/5: Matthew Coopermanâs poetry has always put me in mind of the work done by heavy, poetic diffusion. Like a lyricizing of circumstance so it feels like a weighted blanket, or lyric as relentless hum...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7565710564
6 months ago
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"Iâd like to argue that all John Ashberyâs poems could be framed by a poetics of the asymptote. How they move, the conceptual distance they, their pushiness..." from my goodreads review of John Ashbery's Three Poems
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Kent's review of Three Poems
5/5: Iâd like to argue that all John Ashberyâs poems could be framed by a poetics of the asymptote. How they move, the conceptual distance they, their pushiness, positioning the reader closer and clos...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7553051952
6 months ago
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"But there is also the elegy of enduring grief. The personâs death is a dark, abiding presence. And the poem, or the book of poems, will need to be less performative and more ruminative." from my goodreads review of Alan Felsenthal's Hereafter
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Kent's review of Hereafter (Song Cave, 57)
4/5: An elegy can have varying expressions. There is the elegy of sharp grief, where a poem swims itself toward loss, especially that singular sensation when the poet realizes the person they loved is...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7520565096
7 months ago
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"What Iâm thinking about here is abbreviation as a gesture, and what the body feels like making that gesture." from my goodreads review of JoAnna Novak's Domestirexia
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Kent's review of Domestirexia
4/5: Abbreviation in poetry is like when you press a divot into clay. Its brief gesture meant to be something, but not entirely what something it is. Or itâs learning to sketch, specifically where you...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7512031443
7 months ago
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Using Jennifer S. Cheng's recent essay, "A Catalog of Falling Things," I consider the mannered speaker of Mary Jo Bang's poems in The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans.
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A view on disjunction - theKalliope
Using Jennifer S. Cheng's recent essay, "A Catalog of Falling Things," I consider the mannered speaker of Mary Jo Bang's poems in The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans.
https://thekalliope.org/a-view-on-disjunction/
7 months ago
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"What does it mean to write a manifesto versus to be the kind of person who would write a manifesto. And is that manifesto-look what the poetâs even looking for?" from my goodreads review of Andrea Abi-Karam's Villainy
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Kent's review of Villainy
3/5: Abi-Karam opens with an aggressive poetry. Like attacking, but then in the middle of attacking they realize where they are. They should be doing something more than just what theyâre doing right ...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7475033932
7 months ago
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"This story passed from one to the other, it feels like my fantasy of Twitter. It would be nice to go back in time, to isolate myself on the Internet, to make stories with friends, and post them while sitting around a tree" from my review of Monica Mody's Kala Pani
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Kent's review of Kala Pani
5/5: The story told in this book could have been something you read about on Twitter. Like old Twitter. The one people would tweet on thinking this was, in fact, a microblogging platform, that could f...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7467386573
8 months ago
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"I find I read her poems slower, keenly prepared for the agile, grammatical shift that will inevitably appear." from my goodreads review of Medbh McGuckian's Captain Lavender
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Kent's review of Captain Lavender
5/5: I have been slowly making my way through McGuckianâs selected, The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems. Which gave me a preview of this book. And in my notes there, Iâd seen the poems selected fr...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7453470100
8 months ago
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"I would like to propose âMediationâ as a subtitle for Kelseyâs book. A concept that is assuredly part of any study âon certainty.â" from my goodreads review of Karla Kesley's On Certainty:
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Kent's review of On Certainty
5/5: I would like to propose âMediationâ as a subtitle for Kelseyâs book. A concept that is assuredly part of any study âon certainty.â Where even though âcertaintyâ would likely register for people as a mental solidness or a soulful stability, it can also serve as a record of struggling with certainty. And in Kelseyâs usage, whose analogies can cast a wide berth, I would suggest to anyone reading: think of certainty as more than a state of mind. Like what is the mind doing when it compares people or natures or histories? Are there some comparisons that feel more certain than others? Should an...
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"I find Ashbery concerned with the abstraction of where. How time can make where more where-worthy. And people where you expect people to be complicating where you are at the moment." from my goodreads review of John Ashbery's Houseboat Days
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Kent's review of Houseboat Days
5/5: There is a where to America. A location thatâs abstract, like the definition of the word âdwelling.â Where you ask, âWhere is the America you dwell in?â Because where introduce a question, and it...
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"The poems are wide open-armed gestures remarking on the gap between the then-time when memories happened and the now-time when theyâre being recollected." from my goodreads review of Liz Countryman's Green Island
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Kent's review of Green Island
5/5: I have many feelings about the quotations that always hover close by while Iâm reading poetry. Like what do I feel about the ghost of Wordsworth, and his âemotions recollected in tranquillityâ? L...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7413857683
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