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1d ago
Messina’s writing is bleak and tender and honest and is not trying to persuade me of anything, least of all that things will work out ..read more
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3d ago
I love gossip in poems, and I love to see friendship performed in pieces of art, so I don't know how to create things like that without those kinds of references ..read more
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1w ago
Without awe, how can we dream up a different reality? Without wonder, the dark matter of possibility, how do we find the courage to zoom in on our unbearable humanity ..read more
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1w ago
To ask whether the pornographic narrative style does anything (and to value it accordingly) is to buy into the promises of virtuous consumption. It is to believe that consuming a book somehow transforms aesthetic experience into social action ..read more
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1w ago
With comics, for better or worse, you can’t really hide from who you are. You’re spending so much time working on these things that you can’t keep up a persona for that long ..read more
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1w ago
Many of the people we encounter in the pages of this book do not identify as smugglers but as workers of various kinds ..read more
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2w ago
These poems leave us with a gentle litany of things left behind—things more suitable, perhaps, for the more subtle shades of grief ..read more
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2w ago
We’re excited to announce the 2022 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Ching-In Chen and Gillian Joseph ..read more
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2w ago
Communing with the mineral/rock world is also another way for me to contemplate time, and to understand that the destructive/creative geologic processes are always underfoot ..read more