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Among the Names
Apostrophe
Apprehend
Also Known As
bk of (h)rs
The Cellar Dreamer
cloudlife
Discrete Categories
Forced into Coupling

dust and conscience
Edge and Fold
Equinox
fine
Follow-haswed
four letter words
Gorgeous Mourning
Human Forest
In the Absent
Everyday

Marybones
My Rice Tastes Like
The Lake

Oh
open book
passing world pictures
placing the accents
The Pleasures of C
Plunge
Rules of the House
Speed of Life
Table Alphabetical
of Hard Words

The Turning
Verso
Wild Goods
within the margin


Maxine Chernoff
Valerie Coulton
Tsering Wangmo
Dhompa

Kathleen Fraser
Paul Hoover
Alice Jones
Stefanie Marlis
Edward Kleinschmidt
Mayes

Pattie McCarthy
Denise Newman
Elizabeth Robinson
Edward Smallfield
Cole Swensen
Truong Tran
Laura Walker






Oh
Cole Swensen


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Cole Swensen's brilliant, witty riff on the history and meaning of opera as art form represents and refigures high passion and baroque exultation in the most minimal, condensed, and quiet of vocabularies and phrasal units. Oh is opera cool-the aria transformed into delicate echo—

thus witless
this edgeless—

and it is precisely this restraint-this subtle aural and verbal spin on opera as extravagant art-that allows the reader to revel in the difference-as well as the continuity—of our own poetic moment.
—Marjorie Perloff