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Keith Taylor
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| Many years ago a mid-list novelist I know dismissed "The English Patient" as "okay for a poet's novel." And other than being outraged by his condescension, I have tried to figure out what he might mean. I think it is something other than simply a nov ...more | |
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| Since I am a Francophile who spent most of the eighties and nineties selling academic and scholarly books in the humanities to a university audience, I watched the rise of French theory very closely. I read some of the books, and engaged in conversat ...more | |
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( I did NOT read the Kindle edition, but that seems to be all I can find here) (This is a reread, but the first for this translation. It is in my memory that 56 years ago, or so, we read all of the Aeneid in the original in fourth year Latin at John A ...more |
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| This is an interesting history of taxonomy, from Linnaeus to the current cladists and all the work on DNA analysis to determine species. Fascinating stuff, but Yoon reaches past that to an ecological/philosophical position. She organizes her book aro ...more | |
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| I'll admit that I have gotten a bit tired with novels about writers, particularly ones that spend a good deal of time in academic environments. BUT this one hooked me immediately! The writing is wonderfully clear, and the story is different in very i ...more | |
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| Vandermolen is a Michigan and Midwestern original. Completely humble before the elements of the poem, seemingly simply recording the impressions of his world. But it is a sophisticated approach, informed certainly by William Carlos Williams and Frank ...more | |
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| This wonderful book is a mixture of post-apocalyptic science fiction and allegory of the human condition. Some readers who want pure SF may be puzzled by the allegorical and philosophical elements, because Unferth is asking something very different f ...more | |
"I am again in awe of what Maggie Nelson does with words. This time it's a love/loss letter to an unnamed lover, an ex who has left Nelson gutted. She processes her grief through an exploration of the blue, from bird bowers to pigments to the music of"
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"Full disclosure: I love Ann Patchett's writing, characters, and stories.
This is not to say that I'd give 5 stars to everything she has written, but this one - Whistler - was almost the perfect novel in the same way that Tom Lake and Bel Canto were fo" Read more of this review » |
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| It seems as if this book might be emblematic of the idea that poetry is always a kind of Rorschach: any reading is shaped by what the reader brings to it. Vakalo is certainly stretching language, and this is visible in Emerich's English, which one ho ...more | |
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