Sunday, November 17, 2019
Because Eliza Griswold's poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative -- even when she is tendentious.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:03PMSaturday, November 2, 2019
In this book, Naomi Klein shines a light on the path to a politically and economically just model of sustainability.
The post Book Review: “On Fire” — An Optimistic Take on Climate Cha…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMThursday, August 22, 2019
Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMFriday, July 26, 2019
In his new book, poet Charles Simic employs his customary strategies, but he seldom achieves the intensity he once did.
The post Poetry Review: “Come Closer and Listen” — Is Brusque a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:24PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
In Frozen Charlotte, Susan de Sola provides readers with enough aesthetic pleasure and thoughtful commentary about today's world to remind us of just how good -- and necessary -- poetry can…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
We will find out how much the future of the earth matters in the next Presidential election.
The post Book Review: “Uninhabitable Earth” — Incentivizing Survival appeared first on The …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PMFriday, April 12, 2019
L. M. Brown writes with a sure hand about men and women beset with dreams and longings, who fall in and out of love with each other, and who harbor secrets that shape their lives in unpredic…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
The Beats came before the '60s, the decade of civil rights protests, women’s rights, the anti-war movement, and the civil strife that included riots and assassinations.
The post Poetry Com…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
In the age of truthiness, poet Frederick Seidel's is a welcome voice.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AMSunday, December 2, 2018
America the Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart -- both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:04PMSunday, October 14, 2018
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:04PMMonday, October 1, 2018
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Despite its occasional confusions, this is poetry I will return to -- to re-experience A.E. Stallings' wit, wisdom, and word-smithing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMFriday, June 22, 2018
L. H. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMFriday, April 27, 2018
Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12PMFriday, April 13, 2018
Steven Pinker's book is a welcome antidote to the Trump era, when we are inundated, daily, with an avalanche of negative and disturbing stories.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:50PM 
