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Fall Creek

A new book-length lyric from one of our most prolific contemporary poets and thinkers. In a headlong rush, Lyn Hejinian’s Fall Creek swirls the literal with the littoral, sediment with sentiment, and “inklings / of sob shout or song / inking clarity in book stone rustle / word sending leaves down / in further language” …
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In Memoriam

Lyn Hejinian

It’s two days after the spring equinox, the sun is warm on my face, and the air still has a winter chill on it. I am walking and “writing” at the same time …
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Where Not to Be Born
By Safaa Fathy
Translated by Rawad Z. Wehbe
Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets
Edited by Omar Berrada, Sarah Riggs
Sphinx
By Liliane Giraudon
Translated by Lindsay Turner

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Olivia C. Harrison: On Palestine Solidarity

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