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Saturday, January 22, 2022

Of Crawdads & Stilt Houses

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  The Dresser asks, what makes one book a better seller than another?   In the last several years, two books launched ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

The Seven Voices of Seven Guitars

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  The blues, music and grit of the life inspiring such melancholic tones, infuses August Wilson’s play Seven Guitars , esp...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Breaking and Entering: A Powerhouse of Poetry

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  The idea of position is key to reading Barbara Goldberg’s masterful Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems ...
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Saturday, November 13, 2021

What Disappears: A Study in Lost Time

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  What Disappears , an historical novel by Barbara Quick , is an ambitious work populated with such larger-than-life perso...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

At the Folger—Diane Seuss & frank:sonnets

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     Diane Seuss and t’ai freedom ford opened the 53 rd O.B. Hardison Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library o...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Jan Karski, the Camera Who Witnessed the Holocaust in Poland

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  Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski by Clark Young and Derek Goldman is an unsettling piece of theater in performan...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Lee Woodman’s Lifescapes: A Study in Ambiguity and Escape

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  Sometimes, the Dresser feels ambivalent about writing book reviews. What does her opinion matter? What has been learned ...
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Karren Alenier
is author of how we hold on and seven other collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation, winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature, and The Anima of Paul Bowles. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as: the Mississippi Review, Jewish Currents, and Poet Lore. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her opera with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes premiered at New York City’s Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia in June 2005. She is working with composer Janet Peachey and director Nancy Rhodes on What Price Paradise. She writes a monthly column on opera for Scene4 Magazine at scene4.com.
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