The poems in Bang’s latest collection, her ninth, are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment.
For fans of “The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands” by Nick Flynn and “Exit Opera” by Kim Addonizio
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Nick Flynn, Kim Addonizio
It was not exactly urgent to get the rug, but the larger question the rug had to answer was urgent enough.
She had recently moved out of the large home she shared with her husband and child in Silver Lake and into a small two-bedroom house behind her writing studio in Echo Park.
We were just getting acquainted as she carefully merged on and off a series of highways in her blue Toyota Prius.
There was going to be traffic — of course there would be traffic — and it began to dawn on us that this was going to be a long drive.
In such close quarters, Ms. July suggested we might define the terms of our relationship more clearly.
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MirandaOrganizations:Facebook, Toyota, IrvineLocations:Irvine, Calif, Silver Lake, Echo