Men in the Off Hours
It’s a curious book, not easily categorized. As the subtitle outlines, it is a collection of “brief essays,” arranged in the format of an imaginary encyclopedia, with each entry ranging from personal anecdote or recollection to etymology and jargon all the way to scientific fact and even Yiddish. These, more than anything, are poems—some of them
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The last few poetry books that I read that will stay with me: The Choreic Period by Latif Askia Ba, The Rose by Ariana Reines, The Haunting by Cate Peebles, The Verse For Now by Jacqueline Suskin and I Don’t Want to Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza.
And here are a few books that I return to again and again: Haiku: The Last Poems of an
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