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Best Reads: 2010 So Far
These are the best books Bat Terrier has read this year. Of course, the year isn’t done, and this list might change. But so far, these books all look like contenduhs. Click for reviews etc. (Full...
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On Having a Day Alone in My Own House
On Having a Day Alone in My Own House I sculpt my gratitude into a Soviet-era monument, a giant blocky thing for the town square. Buses of tourists gawk at it, marveling at the effort. Mothers and...
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Best Reads, 2010 (Translation, Anthology, Poetry, etc.)
These are the best books Bat Terrier read this year. (Disclosure: no books by friends on this list.) Translation The Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud, as translated by Donald Revell Anthologies Flash...
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Of Interest: Best Prose Poetry, Best of the Small Presses, “Shoveling Snow...
Molly Gaudry meditates on the prose poem, as exemplified in that excellent journal of prose poetry goodness, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. She also includes a list of exemplary books of prose...
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Nesting
A man on a bench, wearing a suit. Sewn on top of his neck is the head of a crow. He begins to peck himself. His beak penetrates the skin and tears into muscle. The brachioardiall of his right arm is in...
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The History of Pet Burials
The farther away you went, the nearer the sick and broken came. Soft rock lilted from hidden speakers in crowded waiting rooms. Birds of all denominations had been flayed, fractured, forced...
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Journal Notes—Irremeable Progressions
The action moves outward from the drawing room to the street, the carriage to the theatre and back home again. He asked for a kiss, pointing to his cheek and moving closer, his wife looking on...
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Sinking Feeling
I fell in love with a woman who was sitting behind a cage. The cage surrounded her but the seat was so high up that she looked down on everyone who was watching. She was a blonde woman in a blue...
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