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		<title>A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS by Michelle Boisseau</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Review by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS by Michelle Boisseau The University of Arkansas Press McIlroy House 105 N. McIlroy Avenue Fayetteville, AR 72701 IBSN 978-1-55728-901-8 2009, 100 pp., $16.00 www.uapress.com Michelle Boisseau’s fourth collection of poems, A Sunday in God-Years recounts White America’s brutal history of slave-ownership paired with its desire for reconciliation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rattle.com/blog/2010/09/a-sunday-in-god-years-by-michelle-boisseau/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Nascar&#8221; by Mike White</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike White NASCAR Not rolling in liquid fire or pulled apart by physics. Not between commercials. But the way an old dog half-blind noses around and around some quiet apple-scented chosen ground. &#8211;from Rattle #32, Winter 2009 Read by Megan Possibly related:&#8220;Dover&#8221; by Alan Fox&#8220;Ars Poetica&#8221; by Grace Ocasio&#8220;Two Haiku&#8221; by Claire W. Donzelli&#8220;Why Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Before the Poetry Reading&#8221; by David Wagoner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Wagoner BEFORE THE POETRY READING They’ve left me standing in the hall, alone, outside the room where I’m going to put myself and some poems on display. The man in charge is making sure the microphone is too short and the table holding the lectern has one leg just short enough. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I shouldn’t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Environmental&#8221; by Arthur Vogelsang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Vogelsang ENVIRONMENTAL Unfortunately rather than grass there was white paste Or rather than an orange tiger lily there was white white out, And a lime tree or an outfield? No instead there was white medicine In a normal tube which over and over had to refill Itself to cover the whole major league outfield [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rattle.com/blog/2010/09/environmental-by-arthur-vogelsang/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;S-Plan&#8221; by John L. Stanizzi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John L. Stanizzi S-PLAN Bacon Academy Colchester, CT October 31st, 2001 1. Shortly after 9/11, a boy who had been stealing pick-up trucks from a local dealership and hiding them in the woods so he could sell them later, decided to fashion a fake bomb and place it on the loading dock outside the cafeteria [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rattle.com/blog/2010/09/s-plan-by-john-l-stanizzi/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Casing&#8221; by Charlie Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Smith THE CASING For years I sat in bars lying about everything, concealing my limp, offering vinyl suitcases for sale and proposing to women who’d overlooked themselves. I gave away folding tables and threatened species like lopsided turtles and misused harness bulls. I wasn’t as speedy as I claimed to be or as galled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/the-casing-by-charlie-smith/</link>
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		<title>AND THE WEST WAS NOT SO FAR AWAY by Brad McDuffie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Review by Alex Andriesse AND THE WEST WAS NOT SO FAR AWAY by Brad McDuffie Des Hymnagistes Press P.O. Box 41271 Lafayette, LA 70504 ISBN 978-0-9822693-2-9 2009, 64 pp., $12.00 http://deshymnagistes.blogspot.com Maybe it’s a truism but it’s not untrue: American poetry has never been much known for its poetic “movements,” or for what the French [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/and-the-west-was-not-so-far-away-by-brad-mcduffie/</link>
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