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“Grief Is Singular”: On Victoria Chang’s “Obit”
Carol Muske-Dukes considers “Obit” by Victoria Chang....
Carol Muske-Dukes
Carol Muske-Dukes is an award-winning author of nine books of poems, four novels, two collections of essays, co-editor of two anthologies, and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book of poems, Blue Rose from Penguin, was a long list finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (2018–2019). She also founded USC’s PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing and is a former poet laureate of California.
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“And Then: Music”: On the Collected Work of the Late Jane Mead
Carol Muske-Dukes considers “To the Wren: Collected & New Poems” by Jane Mead....
Wonderful Chaos: On “Home Remedies: Stories” by Xuan Juliana Wang
Carol Muske-Dukes tries out “Home Remedies” by Xuan Juliana Wang....
A Cool Radiance: Carol Muske-Dukes on Lisa Russ Spaar
A CRITIC RECENTLY NOTED that the poems in Vanitas, Rough, by Lisa Russ Spaar, have “become more muscular, more erotic” — more (one presumes) than her earlier poems. Yet her poems have always been tight-knit and languorous at the ...
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