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Catherine Wagner: F*ing Poetry

March 8, 2010 – 1:19 pm


Catherine Wagner’s third collection My New Job (Fence Books 2009) is a highly structured work of experimental poetry in which we follow Wagner through both physical and poetic exercises. In the first section, “Exercises,” she writes a poem for each session of physical therapy she endures after a collarbone accident. The second section, “A Hole in the Ground,” evokes Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein as Wagner questions sexuality and politics with precision.

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