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Rereading Walden in a place that has itself become new, I felt the prospect of another beginning.
—David Rompf, “Once More to the Pond”
Can I reconstruct this day? Do I really want to?
—William Pierce, “Turning Fifty”
I stood before the bathroom mirror and removed the earrings, like a woman alone again after a disappointing date.
—Tracy Marx, “Zoom”
the nation state is a body it is the Russian doll / of bodies
— Camonghne Felix, “Do You Believe in Borders”
It is the season of fruitfulness. Clouds gather in the east all morning, and the rain pours in the afternoon.
— Kanchana Ugbabe, “Happy Lockdown”
Language, in which the question / where are you from sounds like
are you / from nothingness.
— Krystyna Dąbrowska translated by Karen Kovacik, “Hebrew”
HARVARD BOOK REVIEW
Collected Poems: 1946–2016by Harry Mathews
reviewed by Andrew DuBois
Let Me Tell You What I Meanby Joan Didion
reviewed by Maia Silber
Kant’s Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Writeby Claire Messud
reviewed by Peter Dziedzic
I Live in the Slumsby Can Xue, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
reviewed by Victoria Zhuang
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantinoby Julián Herbert, translated by Christina MacSweeney
reviewed by Gabriel García Ochoa
An Inventory of Lossesby Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie Smith
reviewed by Erica X Eisen
Wild Swimsby Dorthe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstra
reviewed by Gabriella Martin
No One Is Talking About Thisby Patricia Lockwood
reviewed by Lily Scherlis
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