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Book Review of "Pure Lunacy: Poetry about Moon and Human Orbits"
Is it a coincidence that when the moon is "fullish", we are at our most "foolish"? In Pure Lunacy, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Stephen Schwei takes readers on a celestial journey through hundreds of different cultural lenses and raw personal prisms. Whether he is paying tribute to Neil Young'sHarvest Moon or finding the soul of the universe in a "cutout in an outhouse door," Schwei writes with a "mass of contradictions" that is both deeply moving and raucously funny. Like a
Jiang Pu
Aug 281 min read


Book Review of "The Last Cherry Blossom"
Personal. Poignant. Powerful. “The Last Cherry Blossom” by Kathleen Burkinshaw is a historical fiction loosely based on her mother’s...
Jiang Pu
Feb 19, 20233 min read
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