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Newsletter #327

July 4, 2022

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3 books featured in this issue

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Also a Poet

by Ada Calhoun

TRUE

This is my favorite kind of non-fiction book—a failure. Which is to say that it isn't a biography of the influential mid-century poet Frank O'Hara, although it's full of biographical detail and wise a... (James)

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Men Who Feed Pigeons

by Selima Hill

MADE-UP

You just need to pick up this book of poetry, Hill's sixteenth or so collection, to see what it is and whether you might like it. The poems are tiny—two or four or six lines long—grouped in series abo... (Tom)

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Sandfuture

by Just

I picked up this book (at New York's McNally Jackson bookstore) because it didn't look like anything else on the shelf, and inside it doesn't read like anything else either. Mostly, it's a biography o... (Tom)

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