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All the Heat We Could Carry
Heat, indeed, is a metaphor for passion throughout these poems, including sexual love but encompassing all human drive, hope and ambition ... 
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Cubed
In many senses, the relocations of human men and women and the many reconfigured floor plans are shifting borders. But behind them all, I find the most profound border upheaval that underlies all others the one between work and life ... |
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Exiles and Expatriates
How the characters come to terms with their loss is the source of the tension in these stories; often there does not seem to be a resolution, just further exile and continued sorrow ... |
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Fur People
Not for fear of getting shot or killed, but like all Hendricks' characters, these women exist outside the mainstream ...
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Guinevere in Baltimore
You can just imagine Puhak winking broadly out at the audience here. For just as in the previous collection, there's some fine irony at work in these poems as well ...
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Hot Flash Sonnets
Think of Petrarch. Think of Dante. And yes, think of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans ... |
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Imperial
Closely observed, like amoeba under a microscope that blossom into dinosaurs, the ordinary experiences in an average lifetime represent so much more than their simple everydayness ...
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Just Drive
These poems are full of humor and humanity, brimming with familiar characters and the sort of everyday street adventure you might find in a Malamud or Bellow novel ...
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Looking for the Gulf Motel
An openly gay Latino, born in Spain to Cuban émigrés only to move to New York and then Miami shortly afterward, Blanco tackles the complexity of identity issues from a keenly personal point of view ...
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Spectator
Kara Candito writes within the vast context of western poetic traditions. Her poetry demands a familiarity with forms and an understanding of historical context ...
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The Book of Life
Her parents and grandparents were Marxists, for whom religion was opium. The essence of Judaism for them was social activism ...
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What Happened Here
Like a patchwork quilt, all of these pieces mesh together to make one consistent whole, giving this collection of stories something of the effect of a novel ...
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Quictions
Mr. Nipple Apologizes
by Bonnie ZoBell
His specialty was rock band album covers. He'd surprised Neon Narcissist with one of his best, but his son had said it was all wrong ...
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Nipple Riot
by Gary Herschorn
Aubrey smiled, thinking how certain radio and television stations refused to say the word "pussy" when referring to the band...
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Everything You Need to Know
about Being a Nipple
by James Valvis
It might even have been a nipple gag or two better than most. Last month he had counted sixteen nipple jokes, the month before nine, and the month before that fourteen ...
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Santa Claus is Real
by Jan-Erik Asplund
Would it not have been beneficial for God to swap them, to mak`e the past that which is shrouded and impossible rather than the future, on which so much depends and which is so hard to imagine? ...
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Kyiv Sestina
by Naomi Telushkin
Winter in Kyiv is gray and raw, sunlight an occasion. My townhouse however, and those around it, are orange, blood red and green — colors bursting in the Ukraine winter like a butterfly...
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Cut Me Up
by Nitin Jagdish
Zenith is gonna swallow the other brands, man, and then their scientists are gonna invent attachable TV screens and we're gonna be tricked into attaching them to our heads like tele-sombreros and they're gonna bomb us with commercials and the only way to change the channels will be by slapping each other ...
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Nipple Knows Best
by Jennifer Juneau
Nobody laughed. They were too hungry. No wonder people thought he was such a jerk ...
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The Platinum Age of Television
by Robert Wilson
He was wearing a tuxedo and his white hair was balding. An evil grin spread across his face while his arms lay on the table, a cigar slowly burning in his right hand...
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Mark Nipple Retires
by Zippy Spielgantz
Just making more money was not going to give him any sense of accomplishment or mitigate the stress of time wasted in pointless activity ...
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