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Kevin Killian’s Amazon Reviews, Part 1
From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.
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A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Extracts from forthcoming books by Kathryn Davis, Jane DeLynn, N. H. Pritchard, Katherine Rundell, and Izumi Suzuki.
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
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Photograph of My Father
Above the crescent of a colonnade. And he is standing on a gravel path Between turned-up rows of empty flower beds.
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Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances
the castigations and the bountiful.
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When the Movie Theatre Closed
below and above them with pink.
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Women Singing in the Deep Sea
They are far from shore.
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Portfolio: Margaret Finds a Box
In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...
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There Is Only One Clique and You Are the Only One
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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The Jewish Furrier Explains the Search for Beauty
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...