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Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan

With carmine endpapers, a heavy paperstock, a glossy cream cover and a properly austere design, Ugly Duckling offers an elegant volume that’s pleasing to hold and that rhymes wonderfully with Saroyan’s verse. This is important, because while reading Saroyan you need to remember that you have something in your hands. At a little under four hours, my reading was probably among the longer this volume (277 pps) will have—about a minute per poem per page.



Radish King by Rebecca Loudon

In Rebecca Loudon’s Radish King, the poems’ logic is mysterious; happenings in them are inexplicable. They create their own world, where a dream-like logic can operate.





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