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+ Fall 2017 Poetry

Still Thrumming in My Brain: A Review of Anthony Madrid’s “Try Never”

September 10, 2017August 2, 2019
Raffi Kiureghian

Try Never By Anthony Madrid Canarium Books – 2017 I first saw Anthony Madrid read alongside Michael Robbins and Paige Ackerson-Kiely in Brooklyn one summer afternoon, in a bookstore by a church undergoing repairs, scaffolding wreathing the brown steeple. I only knew of Robbins, whose book, Alien Vs. Predator (Penguin, […]

+ Spring 2017

Review: Skeleton Coast by Elizabeth Arnold

April 1, 2017April 23, 2019
Raffi Kiureghian

Skeleton Coast (Flood Editions) opens with an epigraph from George Herbert’s 17th century poem, “The Temper (I).” Herbert’s poem recounts his soul’s ecstasy and anguish, begging of God, “rack me not to such a vast extent,” but, in the stanza Elizabeth Arnold quotes, Herbert submits to God’s torture: “Stretch or […]

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