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Joshua Corey

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Poetry, Fiction, Science Fiction

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Joshua Corey writes poetry, fiction, and criticism. Lately he's been writing science fiction novels!

His recent publications include:

- How Long Is Now (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2022), a novel.
- Hannah and the Master (MadHat Press, 2021), poetry.
- The Transcendental Circuit: Otherworlds of Poetry (MadHat Press, 2018), criticism.
- Partisan of Things (Kenning Editions, 2016), a new translation (with Jean-Luc Garneau) of rancis Ponge's 1942 book of prose poems, Le Parti pris des choses,

He lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and daughter and is a Professor of English at Lake Forest College. ...more

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Lonesome No More: Writing and the incoherencies of genre.

[First published August 5, 2021.]

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