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Books by more recent poets include No Starling by Nance Van Winckel (whose work has gotten noticeably and gorgeously strange in the last few years); Laura Kasischke’s Lilies Without; Dean Young’s embryoyo; Tomaž Šalamun’s The Book for My Brother; and Alessandra Lynch’s it was a terrible cloud at twilight. Lynch’s poems are deeply musical and emotionally rich—they persuade, finally, by their distinctive voice: by its often incantatory, even obsessive, quality and by its shifts and veerings that are both surprising and right. [read on]Forhan's poems have been published in magazines such as Poetry, Paris Review, New England
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He received a 2007 NEA fellowship in poetry, and teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind.
Writers Reads: Chris Forhan.
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