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Kelcey Parker: November 2009
It is sometimes offered as a tenet of fiction that you can get away with absurdity if you do it emphatically enough, and early enough in the story. If you can seduce us into suspending our disbelief at the beginning, we’re yours for the whole ride. Kelcey Parker executes this strategy admirably in her short stories.
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Betsy Sholl: October 2009
The poems of Betsy Sholl reveal the habits and motions of an active human mind: the fluid unwinding of thought, the pushing forward into the space ahead, the dance of logic—sometimes stately, sometimes playful. Each measure of sound is delicately honed and flows purposefully into the next.
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Barry Krammes: September 2009
Assemblage artist Barry Krammes uses found objects to create miniature worlds with cathedral-sized impact. Layered with detail, mixing whimsy and tragedy, pathos with weirdness, his beautifully composed tableaux have the scale and scope of Dickens novels.
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Franz Wright: August 2009
Franz Wright’s poetry distills suffering, doubt, and desire into a stripped-down style that is both austere and hopeful. But a patient reading of his work reveals that Wright’s frank confessions of need and failure are anything but “confessional.”
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Christian Wiman: July 2009
Christian Wiman is a welcome voice in contemporary poetry. His is a gracious, impassioned intellect, full of both energy and gravity—and here is a broadly read writer who affirms the value of timeless religious questions.
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Issue 63
Art by Agnes Martin, James MacMillan on music, interview with Tim Gautreaux, poems by John F. Deane.
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