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Abby Paige

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This Is Your Brain on Descartes

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The Certainty Dream, Kate Hall, Coach House Books

by Abby Paige
07.02.2010

In a writing workshop, the American poet Ed Ochester once bellowed over one of my poems, “There is no philosophy in poetry.” Generally, I find such grand pronouncements about poetry perplexing and not very helpful, but I made a note of this one. Then I mostly forgot about it until, reading Kate Hall’s debut collection, [...]

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A Spoonful of Sugar

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Joy Is So Exhausting, Susan Holbrook, Coach House Books

by Abby Paige
14.12.2009

Susan Holbrook is funny, sometimes enough to make one laugh out loud. In Joy Is So Exhausting, her second collection, she employs a variety of poetic constraints to create poems that surprise and delight without being too cute or comfortable. Constraint-based poems often read as though they must have been much more fun for the [...]

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