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Wonderful Interview with Leah Umansky and her new book, OF TYRANT
Interview with Leah Umansky: Looking for Moments of Goodness—Start Noticing
TSP: Congratulations on your upcoming poetry collection, Of Tyrant, in which you have a skilled and beautiful way of playing with space, employing the use of repetition which sometimes resembles litanies, and mixing the political with the personal.
As readers, at times we feel drawn
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""Alexa, Why Am I Falling Apart? and Other Amazing Titles"
Accidental Devotions is a devotional not only on how to live honestly in these crazy times, it's also a primer for how to write stellar poems, if you pay the right kind of attention to this imm" Read more of this review » |
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"As I finished Accidental Devotions, I reflected on about the word devotions—these poems are simultaneously like devotionals, or prayers, and like meditations on our personal devotions (that which we are devoted to), which, often, are our obsessions. "
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"Accidental Devotions is the sexiest poetry book I’ve ever read. If sexy poetry seems like an oxymoron, see the image of “her leg/ over my hip bone” and the account of post-marital romp that “feels like it did before you signed a contract” and this fa"
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"It’s easy to love Kelli Russell Agodon’s latest collection. How can one not find sustenance in lines like these in the poem, “Unfinished Angels:” “Maybe she sees what we are // —miracles and molecules, faithful and fallen, / blessed and broken—we are"
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“If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.”
― Hourglass Museum
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.”
― Hourglass Museum
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.”
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“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”
― Choke
Like somehow we're running out of time.”
― Choke
“Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.”
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Hey Kelli...Thanks for accepting my friend request.
You are so welcome!