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/In sparse and contrapuntal verse, familiar words are warped out of their comfortable meanings, and sharpened to juxtapose - but is Joyelle McSweeney's latest experiment a success?
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/The verses of the neglected poet James Schuyler seem to ramble, but they don't really ramble; they seem dishevelled, but they aren't; they seem miniaturist, but they contain whole worlds. Stephen Akey makes the case for your renewed attention.
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/Ben Lerner's arresting first novel sets a funhouse mirror before the author's own formative years as a poet, poseur, and pill-popper in Madrid.
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/French trailblazer Raymond Roussel created teeming and fertile worlds from a secret process of wordplay. Two of his most spectacular works are coming back into print after a long, undeserved absence.
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