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The Beauty and Violence of a Family and of a Nation: Q&A with Sasha Steensen

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“We took shelter from where / why,” writes Sasha Steensen in the opening lines House of Deer (Fence Books; 88 pages). Like most of the others, this poem, “Domestication and the Chase,” visits the rural Ohio where Steensen’s back-to-the-land parents raised her, proposing along the way new definitions of family, wildness, and the lyric form. Threading through personal and national memories, Steensen navigates the charged spaces between mother- and daughterhood, fairytale and anecdote, human and animal, and nostalgia and radical disenchantment. If coming of age in 1970s America disabused the poet of her childhood idealism, this book charts its revival; […]

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Index of Published Works

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By Genre Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Translations Scripts Concrete Poetry Correspondence Parodies Art Architecture Covers Letterpress Profiles of Fine Printers Music Artist’s Notebook Writer’s Notebook Poetry Adair, Allison, After the Police Have Been Called, 114 Adams, Kate, Bright Boat, 69 Adamshick, Carl, Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging, 91 Adamshick, Carl, Tender, 91 Adamson, Christopher, J., Arguments for the Pit, 107 Adamson, Christopher, J., The Apparition of Grief Shows Itself, 107 Adamson, Christopher, J., On Nothing, 112 Adrian, Etel, Description of a Friend, 22 Ahmed, Zubair, The Crows Have Their Own Societies, 98 Ahmed, Zubair, Insomnia, 98 Ahmed, Zubair, A […]

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