We Learn to Live: Featured Poetry by Andrés Cerpa
Cerpa’s poems are distilled charges of pure will. A necessarily bleak book illuminated by authentic and audacious feeling.
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The Millions Top 10
How to Buy a Used Car During A Wildfire
I do not laugh but the children do. “I hate these fucking places,” I think again, turning the radio back on.
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France as Told by Two
They mean to prepare the reader for what comes next, the story of the particular way in which time flowed over or through France these past 70 years.
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Binding the Ghost: On the Physicality of Literature
The spirit is strong, but so is the flesh; books can never be separated from the circumstances of those bodies that house their souls.
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Fail Like a Poet: Ambition and Failure in Christian Wiman’s ‘He Held Radical Light’
Time and time again, the people most capable of unlocking the kingdom’s doors have begun to doubt the efficacy of their keys.
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Ada Limón and Erika Sánchez Discuss Self-Care and a Life of Words
It can be healthy to purge dark things, but it can also excavate old and new suffering that needs to be attended to. The body can't always keep up.
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