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"In her sixth full-length poetry collection, Laura Apol returns to themes of loss and grief, to injuries that are, at least partly, cauterized: her struggles with a conservative religious upbringing, her mother's illness and death, children growing up and leaving home, the loss of her adult daughter to suicide, a world-wide pandemic, and the casualties of age."--

Pittsburghese, the latest offering from American poet Robert Gibb, is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with the revelations found in the everyday "debris of paradise." It encompasses both a world of elegies for the great buildings and working stiffs of the city's industrial past, and a pantheist sensibility alert to the "necessary mystery" of the trees and the city's wild creatures.

"These short stories take place along Eight Mile Road on the edge of Detroit; the characters in them take consolation in their lack of prizes, in the clarity of their failures, while approaching the future with gallows humor and jaded naivety"--

"Lesbian bars, libraries, highways, churches, and oil rigs set the scene for the poems in Landlocked. Whether at work or at play, the speakers in Landlocked live in the space between longing and belonging, wanderlust and homesickness, and explore the intersection of place and identity"--

"Boyer follows the adventurers who sailed on the Aurora at the beginning of World War I to support Shackleton's 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition"--