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First Course in Turbulence, Dean Young’s fourth book of poems, displays a virtuosity of image simultaneously with an economy of words. He suggests meanings, sets tone, foreshadows later parts of poems, and sometimes does so all at once. In “The…
Fady Joudah’s book textu consists almost entirely of poems that are exactly the length of a text message, 160 characters — or which are composed of stanzas that are each 160 characters. There are also a couple of prose-y poems…
I’ve been traveling a little for business, so I’ve been on a few airplane flights. Flying always gives me a strange sense of being in-between. It gives me time to think where no one else can reach me: no phone,…
Have you ever noticed that a small detail triggers a memory or seemingly unrelated subject? Memories appear roughly 400 milliseconds after the triggering exposure, according to research reported on the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s blog. This research aims to shed…