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Amy Strauss Friedman

Review: One Illuminated Letter of Being by Donald Platt

December 21, 2020

Amy Strauss Friedman

(Seattle, WA: Red Mountain Press, 2020) Donald Platt’s new poetry collection One Illuminated Letter of Being is a tribute to his dead mother Martha, whom he desperately wants back. Closure is a myth; we are unending, ever-evolving, always reshaping the … Continued

Review: Prime Meridian by Connie Post

July 13, 2020

Amy Strauss Friedman

(Glenview, IL: Glass Lyre Press, 2020) The prime meridian we’re most familiar with is the line of longitude in our geographic coordinate system where longitude is defined at zero degrees. It is an imaginary separation, a divide, a splitting in … Continued

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