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Justin Phillip Reed Reviewed
"With breathtaking lyrical dexterity, Reed first rebukes and then remakes western literature and myth, bringing Black queerness to the forefront, while also gesturing toward the vast, glittering kingdom those traditions loomed over and obscured."
via THE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Hadara Bar-Nadav on Gwendolyn Brooks's "the rites for Cousin Vit"
"Poetry is attention; poetry demands attention. We feel the breath of each word as it is given to us. And here is this stunning and vibrant poem by Brooks—a poet who is no longer alive writing about a person who is no longer alive. And yet as I read it, we are all very much here, present through Brooks’s attention to language and our careful listening." |
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