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	<description>Essays &#38; Criticism of Contemporary Poetry and Literary Fiction</description>
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		<title>STRAYS &amp; OTHER STORIES by SHAWN ROHRBACH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strays and Other Stories
A new collection of short stories by Shawn Rohrbach

Like the title story, this collection resonates with strays, people
disconnected from family, from religion, from the conventional
norm of society. In stripping from the stray those things that we
usually equate with identity, Rohrbach shows something closer
to truth and allows the human soul to shine through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1508&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DISTILLED INTO EFFERVESCENT PURITY: Zinta Aistars on Pamela Erens&#8217; The Understory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ironweed Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Erens]]></category>
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The Understory, Pamela Erens, Ironweed Press
Many, many years have passed since I read Knut Hamsun’s Hunger. I read it in its Latvian translation, a young writer eager to learn from the masters—and the Danish writer Hamsun was that. It was a novel about nothing, really. No car chases, no maddening mysteries, no ravishing love stories, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1548&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOME NOTES ON LAURIE SHECK&#8217;S A MONSTER&#8217;S NOTES from Matthew Hittinger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Monster's Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knopf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Sheck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Hittinger]]></category>

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A Monster&#8217;s Notes, Laurie Sheck, Knopf
I have mixed feelings about paying attention to the reviews, in particular the starred ranking system, on the website GoodReads, a social networking site for authors and book lovers.  I&#8217;ve seen too often good books get flamed by people with the dreaded one-star.  With Laurie Sheck&#8217;s new book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1569&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OUTSIDE AND, THUS, FREE: Daniela Hurezanu on Aleksandar Hemon’s Love and Obstacles</title>
		<link>http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/outside-and-thus-free-daniela-hurezanu-on-aleksandar-hemon%e2%80%99s-love-and-obstacles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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Love and Obstacles, Aleksandar Hemon, Riverhead Books
Like Nowhere Man and The Question of Bruno, Aleksandar Hemon’s Love and Obstacles is a collection of short stories whose main narrator is a Bosnian man of Ukrainian extraction, or an American man of Bosnian-Ukrainian origin, whose father has worked as a diplomat in Africa and the Middle East [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1544&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONTEMPORARY VISIONS: Rick Marlatt on Charles Simic’s Sixty Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Simic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvest Books]]></category>
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Sixty Poems, Charles Simic, Harvest Books
Throughout this collection, Simic captures what can be safely encompassed as truly contemporary visions. Socially, Simic’s themes and images range from entertainment with television, film, theatre (“The Devils,” “Cameo Appearance”) and dining, to travel with hotel rooms (“Hotel Insomnia,” “Paradise Motel”), strange cities and night spots, human relations, (“The Secret,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1535&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEAVING CREATION TO UN-CREATE ITSELF: Carah Naseem on James Chapman&#8217;s Degenerescence</title>
		<link>http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/leaving-creation-to-un-create-itself-carah-naseem-on-james-chapmans-degenerescence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carah Naseem]]></category>
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Degenerescence, James Chapman, Fugue State Press
The storyteller has many faces and many voices. It is his responsibility to hide behind the faces and voices of peoples past to tell about the things that have happened. He weaves beautiful often obtuse words into a quilt of drama and intrigue wrapping you in it, kindling the fire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1528&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RESILIENCY BY DEGREES: Megan Burns on Summer Brenner’s I-5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex, Summer Brenner, PM Press
Summer Brenner enters the dark underworld of the sex slave trade in this fictional account of a young Russian woman’s attempt to escape from bondage as she is transported across a stretch of highway, the I-5 of the title. From the first page, Brenner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1558&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WALKING THROUGH THAT VALLEY: James Reiss on Jonathan Thirkield&#8217;s The Waker&#8217;s Corridor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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The Waker’s Corridor, Jonathan Thirkield, Louisiana State University Press
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A poet in his mid-thirties whose first book wins the Walt Whitman Award has a lot to celebrate. His book comes wrapped in the blessings of its sponsor, The Academy of American Poets; it is all but guaranteed to be reviewed, not relegated to Dustville among dozens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1565&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A JOURNEY INTO AN INNER LANDSCAPE: Gary Kay on Barbra Nightingale&#8217;s Geometry of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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Geometry Of  Dreams, Barbra Nightingale, WordTech Communications
Samuel Johnson famously (and inaccurately) described metaphysical poetry as, “heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together.” Geometry of Dreams,” Barbra Nightingale’s new collection, contains poems filled with heterogeneous ideas, but they are blended skillfully and imaginatively into compelling narratives  that engage and challenge and the reader, who is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1552&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ADVENTURES IN THE DESTRUCTION OF CELEBRITY: Ashley Hood on Andrew Foster Altschul’s Lady Lazarus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casey</dc:creator>
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Lady Lazarus, Andrew Foster Altschul, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Andrew Foster Altschul’s newest novel, Lady Lazarus, is an in-depth look at the destructive forces of too much célèbre, too soon. It smacks of the Cobain family and the demise of its patriarch, of an author acutely aware of his own genius, and of a professor with certain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1539&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIRCULAR ARGUMENT: Shiaw-Tian Liaw on Allison Benis White’s Self-Portrait with Crayon</title>
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Self-Portrait with Crayon, Allison Benis White, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
1. Where the legs should be
Reading White’s first collection of poems, I imagine a sketch of superimposed circles, each circle certainly a circle, but never an exact replicate of the circles previously drawn. Though the larger shape of the book is clear –meditations, through Degas’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gentlyread.wordpress.com&blog=2978152&post=1562&subd=gentlyread&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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