Reviews | September 01, 2009
In Search of Lost Tone: American Poetry in a Year of Change
Jason Koo
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Jennifer Chang, The History of Anonymity: Poems
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
Mary Ruefle, The Most of It
Sean Hill, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
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