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Night of the Republic
By Shapiro, Alan
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- ISBN
- 978-0-54732-970-3
- Publisher
- Houghton Harcourt
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Reviewed on January 1, 2012
In his latest, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award- and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of Happy Hour considers place and things. Characters, at first absent, emerge only from the speaker's close examination of spaces, from the seedy ("Downtown Strip Club") to the abstract ("Cigarette Smoke"). A pervasive sense of "lacking" inhabits this book, as in "Hospital Exami...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
