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Kamran Javadizadeh

Kamran Javadizadeh is an Associate Professor of English at Villanova. He is working on a book called Institutionalized Lyric: American Poetry at Midcentury. (April 2022)

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In Between States

In Solmaz Sharif’s new collection of poetry, closed doors are everywhere.

Customs

by Solmaz Sharif

April 21, 2022 issue

‘The Roots of Our Madness’

John Berryman was central to American poetry’s personal turn, yet his Dream Songs made the racialization of that turn—and the whiteness of the lyric tradition—explicit.

The Selected Letters of John Berryman

edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae, with a foreword by Martha B. Mayou

April 8, 2021 issue

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