#contemporary-literature

#contemporary-literature

"I wanted to look at how the big structures of power - whiteness, class and money - are wielded in the same way as smaller forms of power like desire, wit and charm."

"In the quiet spaces of ordinary moments, he found inspiration. His body of work was both accessible and deep, and this is shown in his fantastic final selection of 80 of his finest poems, published in celebration of his 80th birthday last year," he said in a tribute.

I didn't want to write a smug satire about the superficiality of millennial life—it’s my life!

"This process is fascinating because, while the responses are incredibly varied, the core themes of the text naturally weave through all of them."

"This fall, we're doing something we never do at Defector Reads A Book. You know us by now: We're the sort of book club that skews Beowulf and Moby Dick."