History Lessons: Evie Shockley’s “semiautomatic” and Ange Mlinko’s “Distant Mandate”

IN 1973, Robert Lowell titled a poetry collection History, and meant it. In one unrhymed, Americanized sonnet after another, History covered everything, from “In Genesis” (sonnet five) to “Last Night” (sonnet 361). Comb through the last few years in American poetry, and you could stock a library or two with recent collections that merit the […]

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