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University of Wisconsin Press

A Review of Gloss by Rebecca Hazelton

August 12, 2019

PK Eriksson

(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) Sharply contemporary and certainly urbane, Rebecca Hazelton’s third collection of poems, Gloss, balances a candor with, as one might expect from a collection named for a quality of appearances, an appreciation for the … Continued

A Review of The Explosive Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley

July 16, 2018

Aminah Abutayeb

(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) “The wind doesn’t choose what it moves  / as it moves it: warm rain turning  / dust to mud.  The wind doesn’t choose” writes Shara Lessley in The Explosive Expert’s Wife, her intimate … Continued

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