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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PREPOSITION reviews OPERA FEVER (Wave, 2026) by Chelsey Minnis. "When I was in graduate school, all the cool kids read Chelsey Minnis. I was from Ohio and 'a Marxist,' so I hated her work. [...] The cool kids were right." www.prepositionmag.com/minnis-opera...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

PREPOSITION reviews DEAD BOYS IN SPACE (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social, 2026) by @sygwriter.bsky.social. "In a book about a dead brother, she is never maudlin. The diction is feral, the pacing exuberant, but Gregory sacrifices neither sense nor sequence." www.prepositionmag.com/gregory-dead...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

PREPOSITION reviews KONBIT (@cmupress.bsky.social, 2026) by @sonytonaime.bsky.social. "Relatively unheralded in contemporary poetry, Ton-Aime is an important new interlocutor in a movement that I have elsewhere described as a 'new historical poetics.'" www.prepositionmag.com/ton-aime-kon...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PREPOSITION reviews ROCKET SURGERY (New York Quarterly Books, 2026) by Matthew Yeager. "Yeager has eschewed [...] self-promotion, holding these poems in silence [...] at a moment when both egoism and academic promotion demand constant visibility..." www.prepositionmag.com/yeager-rocke...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

PREPOSITION reviews HEARTMOOR (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2026) by Mihaela Moscaliuc. "...a subtle and by turns searing examination of how power produces itself in invasive and intimate ways." www.prepositionmag.com/moscaliuc-he...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

PREPOSITION reviews TRANSIT (Norton, 2026) by @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social "...perambulation figures prominently in [...] poems which, though set in Ohio, draw heavily on the European lyric tradition. In this way, Baker resembles fellow Ohioan James Wright..." www.prepositionmag.com/baker-transit

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

PREPOSITION reviews THE COMMITTEE OF MEN (@@boa-editions.bsky.social, 2026) by James Ciano. "To characterize the rendition of masculinity here as 'performative' would be to dismiss what is in fact a psychologically layered portrait of the American male." www.prepositionmag.com/ciano-the-co...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

PREPOSITION reviews LAZARUS SPECIES (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2025) by @madamesosostris.bsky.social. "These are unabashedly 'intellectual' poems at a moment when sustained thinking of any kind has become a counter-cultural act." www.prepositionmag.com/walker-figue...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

PREPOSITION reviews THE PALACE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2026) by Andrés Cerpa "THE PALACE bids for a freedom loosed from history and economics alike, a freedom that proves, if not impossible, paradoxical to the degree that it remains compromised..." www.prepositionmag.com/cerpa-the-pa...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

PREPOSITION reviews THE NEW ECONOMY (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Gabrielle Calvocoressi. "The collection’s insistence on self is not so much a product of our contemporary narcissism—or not only that—as it is an aesthetic and affective condition." www.prepositionmag.com/calvocoressi...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

PREPOSITION reviews MONK FRUIT (Nightboat, 2025) by Edward Salem. "The book is simultaneously hilarious and hard-edged, bathetic and heartbreaking, and I would not be surprised to find Salem’s stature rising considerably over the coming months." www.prepositionmag.com/salem-monk-f...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

PREPOSITION reviews THE SAME MAN (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Bobby Elliott. "...a beautifully introspective portrait of abusive family dynamics, and a meditation on how forms of care sometimes calcify over into contempt..." www.prepositionmag.com/elliott-the-...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

PREPOSITION reviews SAY FIRE (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social, 2025) by @Selma Asotić. "...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..." www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

PREPOSITION reviews ARS POETICAS (@weslpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Juliana Spahr. Spahr asks what poetry can achieve when the genre has been co-opted not only by the credentialing agencies of higher ed but by a publishing industry enamored with pabulum. www.prepositionmag.com/spahr-ars-po...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

PREPOSITION reviews LOST CITIES (Persea, 2025) by Valencia Robin. "...an elegy for irretrievable histories, those lost in the scatterings and dispersals attributable to bureaucratic capitalism..." www.prepositionmag.com/robin-lost-c...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

PREPOSITION reviews BEES, AND AFTER (@yalepress.bsky.social) by John Liles. Establishing a poetics for an era of ecological ruin, BEES, AND AFTER is an important and deeply impressive debut, one which should launch Liles’ career... www.prepositionmag.com/liles-bees-a...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

PREPOSITION reviews MESOPOTOPIA (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025) by Anne Waldman. "[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement." www.prepositionmag.com/waldman-meso...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

PREPOSITION reviews ENTER (@graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Jim Moore. Enter is at its most substantial when it seems truly to reckon with darknesses of experience. "'I would like to have risen more fully," Moore writes, "to the occasion of my own birth.'" www.prepositionmag.com/moore-enter

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

PREPOSITION reviews [GAMEROVER (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, 2025) by Giancarlo Huapaya, translated by Ryan Greene. Huapaya and Greene [...] show how corporate ownership of urban space [...] reiterates and elaborates on settler colonialism. www.prepositionmag.com/huapaya-game...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

PREPOSITION reviews MOVING THE BONES (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2024) by Rick Barot. "Barot not only zooms in but problematizes the ethics of doing so, asking how one might privilege romantic love over civic engagement." Link below and in bio... www.prepositionmag.com/barot-moving...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

PREPOSITION reviews ECSTASY (Penguin, 2025) by Alex Dimitrov. "While his enemies will read ECSTASY as the privileged dick-picaresque of the well-connected New Yorker, Dimitrov relishes and returns such animosity..." www.prepositionmag.com/dimitrov-ecs...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

PREPOSITION reviews ALL EMPIRES MUST (Airlie Press, 2025) by Mia Kang. "Kang imagines mythology in and as 'modern love,' reading sexual and imperial urges against each other, excavating female agency in unlikely places." www.prepositionmag.com/kang-all-emp...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

PREPOSITION reviews IF NOTHING (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2024) by Matthew Nienow. It is hardly surprising that nearly a decade has passed since Nienow’s debut; IF NOTHING shows the kind of manuscript one might produce given that duration. www.prepositionmag.com/nienow-if-no...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

PREPOSITION reviews HELEN OF TROY, 1993 (Scribner, 2025) by Maria Zoccola. "One cannot market a book as a salt-of-the-earth 'discovery' and as a product, on the other hand, of elite institutions in 'official verse culture.' [...] The book itself is fine." www.prepositionmag.com/zoccola-hot-93

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

PREPOSITION reviews AFTER IMAGE (Copper Canyon, 2024) by Jenny George. "In poems as 'clear as birdsong,' to use George’s metaphor, AFTER IMAGE renders the natural and object worlds with gorgeous and meticulous simplicity." www.prepositionmag.com/george-after...

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

PREPOSITION reviews OSSIA (Changes, 2024) by @jiminseo.bsky.social "Everything I had seen suggested I would hate the book [...] Ubiquitous in my Instagram feed, OSSIA had seemed one of those poetry culture causes célèbres [...]" www.prepositionmag.com/seo-ossia

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

PREPOSITION announces the 2024 Preppies, for best collection, best debut, and best design among books reviewed this year. www.prepositionmag.com/preppies-2024

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

PREPOSITION reviews HEREAFTER (@The Song Cave, 2024) by Alan Felsenthal. "A smart sophomore collection from a wondrously dark mind, HEREAFTER examines the relation of life to afterlife, of here to hereafter..." www.prepositionmag.com/felsenthal-h...

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