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New Review of My New* Book (*Old)

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THIS IS OLD TWEETING

Dear child that I was, that has split from my anxiety wracked, grey-shot self and is wondering the hallways of my memories as they slowly distend, split, and crumble into the void between synapses–so dramatic! lockdown!–tell me a story about 2018.

Sir, in 2018 you published a book. Do you remember? Do you remember how excited I am about your book then?

Yes, child, I do believe you. Though the world has changed. That book is an old thing. It does not matter now.

But it matters to me!

Yes, child, I suppose it did. [Blows the dust from laptop. Boots up Stardew Valley. Picks at scabs.]

HERE IS A REVIEW OF SOMEONE’S UTOPIA MY 3RD BOOK OF POETRY BY GREG BEM WRITTEN IN THE BEFORE TIMES THANK YOU GREG I FORGOT TO POST ABOUT IT

[Actually, I could use going back to thinking about Utopias.]

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Joe Hall is the author of five books of poetry, including Someone's Utopia (2018) and Fugue & Strike (forthcoming). His poems, reviews, and scholarship have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Postcolonial Studies, Peach Mag, terrain.org, PEN America Blog, Poetry Northwest, Ethel Zine, Gulf Coast, Best Buds! Collective, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He has taught poetry workshops for teachers, teens, and workers through Just Buffalo and the WNYCOSH Worker Center.

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