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I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being, Johanna Skibsrud, Gaspereau Press
by Roger Sauls
05.04.2010
According to Chekhov, the listening ear of a horse is receptive to confession, even to the most woebegone among us — especially in cases where humans won’t listen. In his story “Misery,” a cabby, grief-stricken by the death of his son, can’t find sympathy among his passengers; he finds his waiting mare the only open [...]
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Pause for Breath, by Robyn Sarah, Biblioasis
by Roger Sauls
17.01.2010
The American poet George Oppen liked to cite the carpenter’s art as a useful model for the construction of a poem. He argued that a poem’s parts, when properly connected, constitute a structure of both shapeliness and utility–a ladderback chair, say. The beauty of Oppen’s simile is that it places the poem in the broad [...]
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