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Spectacle & Pigsty Wins 2012 Best Translated Book Award
Organized by Three Percent at the University of Rochester, the Best Translated Book Award is the only prize of its kind to honor the best original works of international literature and poetry published in the U.S. over the previous year. Omnidawn’s Spectacle & Pigsty by Japanese poet, Kiwao Nomura won for poetry. The book was translated by …
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Slot
by Jill Magi
Ugly Duckling Presse 2011
Reviewed by Gina Myers
“…if I flee consolation…”
In Jill Magi’s new collection of poetry, to slot means to curate, to categorize, to place away. Dedicated to New York and written in the wake of September 11, 2001, Slot shows Magi, a New York City resident, on a quest to understand memorializing and acts of public and private grief. Published in Ugly Duckling Presse’s …
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Twin Cities: Review of Recent Readings
When it comes to finding and attending various poetry and literary events in the Twin Cities, I can’t recommend enough the monthly calendar over at Rain Taxi Review of Books. It’s sorted by genre, times …
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Paris 2012 by Andrew Durbin
I don’t remember if I discovered Andy Warhol or Lou Reed first, but I know I never knew who John Cale was until college, when my roommate played me Paris 1919 in the spring of my sophomore year. It’s an album that’s about style above almost anything else, and because …
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