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GENTLY READ LITERATURE
Spring 2014 Issue
3—The Hidden Ordinary: Glenda Burgess on Two Poets
7—True Stories from a Mexican Prison: Deborah Clearman on Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree by Mary Ellen Sanger
10—Gazing Upon Broken Mirrors: Wes Bishop on Lee Upton’s The Tao of Humiliation
14—Notions of Beauty and Materiality: Sally Deskins on Yona Harvey’s Hemming the Water
17—Tragic Histories: Ed Davis on Michael Harris’s Romantic History
22—Terse Lyricism: Daniela Gioseffi on Alfredo de Palchi’s Paradigm: New and Selected Poems 1947-2009
25—A Transcaucasian Mind: Mike Walker on Arslan Khasavov’s Sense
34—The Anti-Mayberry: Rebecca Stoebe on Earplugs by Bram Riddlebarger
37—The Delicate and Precarious: Catherine Bailey Kyle on Glenn Shaheen’s Unchecked Savagery
40—Dogs Don’t Fall in Love: Eileen Austen on Jane Vandenburgh’s The Wrong Dog Dream
44—Tangibly Intangible: Kelly Lydick on Brian Mihok’s The Quantum Manual of Style
49—Loss of Distinction: Jordan Wheatley on Sandy Florian’s Boxing the Compass
55—Ambiences: Bonnie ZoBell on Doug Holder’s Eating Grief at 3 AM
59—Thomas Pynchon’s Escape to the Bleeding Edge by Jesse Lambertson
66—The Culmination of a Life’s Close Attention: Karen Craigo on Sydney Lea’s I Was Thinking of Beauty
69—Burnette Saxifrage: Bonnie ZoBell on Jen Michalski’s The Tide King
74—Assembling a Diverse Literary Society: Kayla Rodney on the Anthology Dismantle
79—Nature’s Lens: Karen Craigo on Paula Bohince’s The Children
82—Intimacy and Exposure: C.P. DeSimone on Sean Thomas Dougherty’s All You Ask For Is Longing
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So here’s the latest issue of the book review magazine I edit