Romanticism
The poems in April Bernard’s Romanticism feel more complete, somehow, for the fact that they each align their focus on objects which, on multiple readings, still seem to have no particular connection...
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Piper Kerman, author of the memoir Orange is the New Black, is a vocal spokesperson for the rights of prisoners. But, asks April Bernard on the New York Review of Books blog, does the successful...
View ArticleBrawl & Jag by April Bernard
April Bernard’s Brawl & Jag is poetry-collection-as-book-length-staring-contest. Unflinchingly direct yet self-aware and full of voluptuous, image-rich language, the poems in her fifth collection...
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