Susan L. Leary
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February 2024
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https://www.goodreads.com/susanlleary
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Dressing the Bear
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More Flowers
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This Girl, Your Disciple
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2019
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Contraband Paradise
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| Andrew Hemmert’s NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS (Pitt Poetry Series) places its speaker, who is deeply reflective, absorbing, and temporary, along the vast continuum of history. It is a book of sweeping interior and exterior worlds, the slippage of time, ...more | |
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| Kieron Walquist’s OUR HANDS HOLD VIOLENCE (National Poetry Series, Beacon Press) is a collection rooted in place, family, memory, and the inherited narratives of violence that shape a single life. Across these poems, the speaker is sharply reflective ...more | |
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| Intimate, reflective, and entirely unguarded, Raphael Jenkins’s PAPER PISTOL (University of Arkansas Press) is a meditation on Black masculinity and vulnerability, each poem contending with how to carry grief, desire, gentleness, love, friendship, an ...more | |
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| Emma Aylor’s CLOSE RED WATER (Barrow Street Press) is a remarkable collection that draws us into a world where the speaker’s emotional life is inseparable from the natural world, where haunting becomes a means of self‑understanding, and where kinship ...more | |
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| Arah Ko’s BRINE ORCHID (YesYes Books) invites us into the emotional interior of a speaker tasked with holding together the fragments of a multigenerational history, one that shimmers with contradiction, multiplicity, and an ongoing reconstellation of ...more | |
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| Brian Gyamfi’s WHAT GOD IN THE KINGDOM OF BASTARDS is an astonishing collection that attends equally to the limits and possibilities of transformation, particularly the imaginative labor through which the self attempts to exceed its personal, familia ...more | |
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| Rebecca Hart Olander’s SINGING FROM THE DEEP END grants us entry into the heart and mind of a speaker I have so much affection for, and through the alternating perspectives of daughter, sister, mother, and friend, we witness the deeply moving and unf ...more | |





















