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A Review of Cages by Sylvia Torti

March 5, 2018

Amelia Fisher

(New York, NY: Schaffner Press, 2017) Most people have felt it at one point or another: that dull ache in the center of your chest when someone ignores you. The slow wrenching in your stomach when you’re not being understood. … Continued

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

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