Poetry
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An Immigrant Woman
An engine of New York City’s growth becomes a terrifying example of its failures in Anne Winters’s intricate and harrowing account.
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The Begotten
James McMichael builds to an uncanny version of the Irish potato famine, invoking the forces of appetite, increase, and distant authority.
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Tantalus in Love
Alan Shapiro weaves Greek myth into a dramatic rendering of a marriage’s last moments and its tendency to reanimate itself every time it seems beyond hope.
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Being Serious
Christian Wiman tells the life story of a man named Serious with unerring wit and mounting poignancy.