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Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems

Highly recommended; readers unfamiliar with Spellman will wonder how they missed his work.
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DEED

Certain to make some readers uncomfortable, and sometimes somewhat overextended, this remains remarkable poetry.
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Go Figure

While a few of the poems here can feel too reductive, this is classic Armantrout in the nature of its language and the depth of its thought. Poetry fans will want.
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Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital

A fascinating and complex study of the musical evolution of two legendary artists. Best for serious jazz aficionados.
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Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration

A thought-provoking book best suited to students of musicology or queer studies.
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The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire

There’s an artfulness of intention behind this work, but placing these anagrammed lines beside those of Shakespeare doesn’t enhance it. Ketner may have discovered an ingenious technique, but unfortunately their method does not result in ingenious poetry.

suddenly we

Another accomplished work from Shockley; highly recommended.
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Icelight

For poems probing deep ontological and existential concerns, these are remarkably free of lecture or cant. Sophisticated readers will grab especially, but this work is accessible to all.
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Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty

Of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, the award-winning Vizenor (Native Provenance) here fictionalizes his great-uncles as he constructs a powerful portrait of the Indigenous condition through innovative setting and characters.
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