Steven Cramer is the author of four poetry collections: The Eye That Desires to Look Upward (1987), The World Book (1992), Dialogue for the Left…
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets…
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(Nicole McFeely) There is a science to Jim Nelson’s writing, and I’m not just talking about the way he structures his sentences, paces his dialogue….
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