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should offer a kind of pre-emptive piss-take of the compositional techniques underpinning the collection’s subsequent and most significant piece

as in Nature

restless exploration” (citation for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize)

moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's "insatiable wandering

Creve Coeur Of Course should offer a kind ofRobert Fitterman Robert Fitterman's sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams's postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. Mirroring Paterson's structure page for page, Fitterman translates Williams's patchwork of local news stories, personal letters, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his