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2 days ago
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Favorite Books #4

A friend of mine, on a celebratory election call yesterday, said, when introducing a poet, "The beauty of language is that when words fai...

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taviblack

Jan 14
2 min

Some of my Favorite Books #3

I've decided to change my title to "favorites" instead of "best books ever". The competition is too large to lay this moniker on the few ...

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taviblack

Jan 4
1 min

Best Books Ever #2

Keri Hulme's 1983 Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People opens with a dense bit of prose poetry. Images and sentences that leave an i...

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taviblack

Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Best Books Ever #1

There's nothing better than falling in love with a book. How many times a year do we ache to get back into a story we've left off the nig...

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taviblack

Dec 8, 2020
1 min

Short Story Cheer

I was asked recently, “Are all of your short stories so sad?” I had to think for a moment, remembering back over all of the stories I hav...

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taviblack

Nov 21, 2020
2 min

Why I'm in Love with Poetry Unbound

Pádraig Ó Tuama might be my favorite new person. Every podcast has me on the edge of tears---not from sadness, but from an incredulous fe...

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