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Second Looks |November 14, 2024

“Rereading May Swenson”

an essay by Randall Mann

“I think rereading is an act of hope, a way of seeing if the past is truly present, or could be, or should be. As I get older, I find I return to the things that first made sense in poetry, before I was hardened into opinion, or career …”
Poetry |November 14, 2024

“What I Like,” “Elegy” & “The Second Year”

three poems by Chase Twichell

“An elegy reveals the current / state of the grief. Therefore, // I cannot write an elegy. / Grief is a shape-shifter.”
Commentary |November 14, 2024

on An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, a novel by Anna Moschovakis

reviewed by Mark Athitakis

“The pleasure of the novel derives from its tension between the narrator’s urge to organize — she makes lists, fills notebooks, takes classes — set against Moschovakis’ determination to question the meaning of that organization, to mess with language and existence.”
Commentary |November 14, 2024

on Candy, poems by Dan Albergotti

reviewed by Joyce Peseroff

“The ghost of Hamlet and Keats’s living hand steer Albergotti through a world at risk, its chaos echoed in the play between established forms and rougher music.”

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