Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Kevin Blankinship Reviews War Songs: ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature
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Poetry
Neo-Donatists in Eden
Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The
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Honey on a Razorblade
Thomas J. Millay Reviews Kevin Hart’s Barefoot Dark One, I sit alone without a light And let the darkness bring me close to
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A Future for a Handful of Hours
Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist
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The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with
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Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting
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The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry
Tom Millay reviews Kevin Hart’s Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry Kevin Hart is not one to boast. Nothing in
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An Unreliable Alchemy
Irina Dumitrescu on the enchantment of books, early reading experiences, and the stories that shape us One day the world shifted, and no
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