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Nine Books About Your Life: Catherine Rockwood

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment we’re speaking with Catherine Rockwood, author of And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death.

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Nine Books About Your Life: Drew Pisarra

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. In this installment, we speak with Drew Pisarra, author of Periodic Boyfriends.

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Nine Books About Your Life: Keely O’Shaughnessy

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Keely O’Shaughnessy, author of Baby is a Thing Best Whispered from Alien Buddha Press.

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Nine Books About Your Life: Alex Carrigan

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Alex Carrigan, author of May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry (Alien Buddha Press, 2022).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Paige Clark

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Paige Clark, author of She Is Haunted (Two Dollar Radio).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Alexis V. Jackson

In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Alexis V. Jackson, author of My Sisters’ Country (Kore Press).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Marream Krollos

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Marream Krollos, author of the forthcoming Stan (Meekling Press).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Amanda Marbais

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the first installment of 2021, we speak with Amanda Marbais, author of Claiming a Body (Moon City Press).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Morgan Christie

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Morgan Christie, author of the forthcoming These Bodies (Tolsun Books).

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Nine Books About Your Life: July Westhale

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. In this installment, we speak with July Westhale, author of the forthcoming Via Negativa (Kore Press).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Jay Besemer

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the third installment, we speak with Jay Besemer, author of the forthcoming Theories of Performance (The Lettered Streets Press).

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Nine Books About Your Life: Sara Wainscott

In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Sara Wainscott is the author of Insecurity System, winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (Persea, 2020), and a chapbook, Queen of the Moon.

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Nine Books About Your Life: Olivia Cronk

In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the inaugural installment, we speak with Olivia Cronk, author of the forthcoming Womonster.

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An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita

By Karen An-hwei Lee

An avid fan of Karen Tei Yamashita’s fiction—Brazil-Maru, Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel—I was thrilled to pick up Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, the long-awaited anthology of electrifying performance worksedited by Stephen Hong Sohn in collaboration with Yamashita herself. Readers of Yamashita’s award-winning novels will be delighted to see her irreverent cultural motifs come alive through playscripts and archival photographs of the past three decades.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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