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Reginald Dwayne Betts: Chants of Indictment

June 09, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Reginald Dwayne Betts, Charles Reznikoff

Reginald Dwayne Betts delivers a rhythmically charged case against the criminal justice system for the onerous bail it often demands from poor people.

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June 09, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Charles Reznikoff
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Charles Reznikoff
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Ned Balbo’s Family Narrative

June 02, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

Ned Balbo’s finest lyrics contain vivid fragments of this overarching epic, which amounts to a lifelong quest for identity amid a tangle of secrets, half-truths, and outright fabrications stemming from his adoption.

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June 02, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell
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