Going on Nerve: Lynn Emanuel’s “The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected”
Suzanne Lummis reviews Lynn Emanuel’s “The Nerve of It.”
Suzanne Lummis’s poems have appeared in notable literary magazines across the country, including Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Hotel Amerika, and The New Yorker. Her most recent poetry collection, Open 24 Hours, received the Blue Lynx Award and was published by Lynx House Press. The anthology she edited, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2015 by the Los Angeles Times. Poetry.LA produced a video series, They Write by Night, in which Lummis discusses film noir and other noir arts, and poets influenced by the noir sensibility.
Suzanne Lummis reviews Lynn Emanuel’s “The Nerve of It.”
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