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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/love-song-matthew-d-berninger/"></div>In the 10 years since its release, much has been made of The National’s Boxer as a “grower” album. This record — the fourth offering by the band — elevated the group to rock-stardom while at the same time serving as a subtle, poignant bridge from Alligator (2005) to High Violet (2010). <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/love-song-matthew-d-berninger/#more-5004" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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The Love Song of Matthew D. Berninger

The Complete Stories

Will Brewbaker studies theology at Duke Divinity School. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Narrative, TriQuarterly Review, and Image, among others.

Will Brewbaker

“Tell Me a Story”: On Noah Warren’s “The Complete Stories”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Sometimes I Never Suffered

“What Else Would Heaven Be”: On Shane McCrae’s “Sometimes I Never Suffered”

Living Weapon

“Stronger Than Steel”: On Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s “Living Weapon”

The River Twice

“To Say Two Things at Once”: On Kathleen Graber’s “The River Twice”

Deaf Republic

Silence That Is Not Silence: On Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic”

Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining

“Reach Out Your Hand”: On Mark Wagenaar’s “Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining”

Will Brewbaker studies theology at Duke Divinity School. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Narrative, TriQuarterly Review, and Image, among others.