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Robert L. Penick
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November 2016
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Footnote 1
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The Art of Mercy: New and Selected Poems
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Exit, Stage Left
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Blue Forms: Selected Poems, 1990-1998
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1999
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Redemption
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| Sad and a bit challenging to wrap my mind around at first, this book took off in the homestretch. It's about a lot of things: How women are treated in culture, social mores, the fragile state of self. But it became something salient in the last 80 or ...more | |
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| I really began to enjoy this book once I gave up on trying to find the metaphor in it. It (to me) is a fable about traveling through distance and time, and it's very well done. At 186 pages, it's a satisfying read and reflection. ...more | |
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| Before you buy it, be aware that it's a 90-page novel. That said, it's a book that will change the way you think about other cultures and folks with physical challenges. I read five or six pages a day and let the story sink in. It's not great literat ...more | |
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| After years of following Robert Okaji's brilliant, understated work, I find "Our Loveliest Bones" out on the market now. It is the continuation of his great nuanced science of caring and observation. Okaji has his ear to the marrow of humanity. These ...more | |
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| Readable. A third star for pleasant. Debits for a childish demonstration of adult relationships and no explanation of what "The Seep" actually is. Got a headache, the Seep will fix it. This coffee table? The Seep made it. It need some pseudo-scientif ...more | |
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| I very much enjoyed these seven stories. The stranger they were, the more I liked them. Least favorite was "Parrot," which seemed to be trying for a conventionality. Best was "Abortion: A Love Story," a tale of two lunatics finding one another and en ...more | |
