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Fifteen debut poetry collections that define the cultural moment.

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The novelist, critic, and biographer on radical localism, the art of compensation, and the editor as auteur.

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in case we have forgotten the word love, we will know its symbol

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The Iranian-American poet on translation as a salve for cultural divisions.

Holly Fitzgerald discusses her memoir of a desperate month in the Peruvian wilderness.