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Read MoreIn Tim Burton’s film “Corpse Bride,” my favorite movie when I was sixteen, a young man accidentally proposes marriage to a dead woman. After a ceremony in a moonlit winter woods, he leaves his drab Victorian village and enters the land of the dead. In the end, he almost prefers what he finds to the lot of the living.
Read MoreAlmost Famous Women, as the title promises, delivers entertaining, touching, and very absorbing short stories based on the lives of women who in their time found a marginal fame, were written about, talked about, and seen, but then were almost lost to history, almost forgotten, and almost became invisible.
Read MoreHappy New Year! Enjoy our poem of the month, a lovely piece by Valerie Hsiung.
HFR: Lastly, this poem feels very true to human nature—"How to talk to ourselves again/ When I was a little immolating plant/ And everything could hurt/ It still can." The fragility is so evident in this excerpt and yet there is reassurance. Can you speak about how this theme developed?
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Read MoreChris Hutchinson frames his modern epic, Jonas in Frames, with quotations. The most fitting comes before the Prologue—Aristotle’s “Of all plots and actions the episodic are the worst.” Jonas in Frames presents the life of Hutchinson’s loveable protagonist and too-humble-and-bumbling-to-be-an-everyman, Jonas, in episodic bits of poetic prose. These episodic bits create a writing that is contemporary: a hybrid of both form and content. Jonas, our anti-hero is neurotic and socially awkward. His story is framed by his diagnosis, in the form of the “Lab Notes” that precede each chapter. Jonas recalls events in bits, yet his story ends with a poetic, modern Ginsberg-style rant, which merges events in popular culture:
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