BOOKS
Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words, by Howard Richler, Ronsdale Press
by Abby Paige
12.09.2010
The Oxford English Dictionary recently revealed the latest list of words newly granted access to its pages, including vuvuzela, staycation, and yes, bromance. It will be a while before your spellchecker recognizes these additions, but the OED’s editors’ periodic recognition of the vernacular, pinched from sources as different as climate science and Jersey Shore, is [...]
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BOOKS
(made), by Cara Benson, BookThug
by Abby Paige
01.08.2010
While distinctly innovative and post-modern in its approach, Cara Benson’s first full-length collection of poems, (made), harkens back to an artistic impulse a century old. In 1915, Marcel Duchamp painted his name and the title “En prévision du bras cassé” on an ordinary snow shovel, giving birth to the ready-made. In the years that followed, [...]
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