When she named her third collection´s final section “Rivets,” Pittsboro poet Rosanne Coggeshall was thinking of the character Marlow from Heart of Darkness stranded midway through his journey, in possession of plates to stop the hole in his steamer, but without rivets with which to fasten them. The poems in this section of the book […]
Jenn Habel
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La musa de la patria
In the prologue to Julia Alvarez’s new book, In the Name of Salomé, one woman says to another “I’m Nobody–Who are you?”, quoting Emily Dickinson’s well-known poem that contrasts the private world of two Nobodies with the public one of the Somebodies. Alvarez’s reference to this poem is particularly apt, as her novel tells the […]
