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Author Archives: Mark Gurarie

A Review of Interval by Alice B. Fogel

January 4, 2016

Mark Gurarie

(Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” Tucson, AZ: Schaffner Press, 2015) Echoing the rigid form of the source material, in which the same aria both begins and ends a sequence of variations, Canadian pianist Glen Gould’s first and last recordings … Continued

A Review of Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson

January 29, 2015

Mark Gurarie

(Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2014) The poems in Sara Eliza Johnson’s Bone Map are unmistakably kindred with one another; though neither formally unified nor linear in any discernible way, each one seems to resonate with the next. Driven by a … Continued

A Review of My Dead by Amy Lawless

February 5, 2014

Mark Gurarie

(Portland, OR: Octopus Books, 2013) From Catullus to Carson, poets have grappled with how to properly address the dead, seeking a vocabulary that can perform the burial ritual, communicate sorrow, can celebrate and perhaps even immortalize. Are words ever enough, … Continued

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