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Karen Solie

Karen Solie released her fourth collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, last year.
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July/August 2016 / Poetry

The Desert Fathers

June 15, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Karen Solie

With or without a bindle of crystal meth, they made their anchorage in Egypt’s Wadi El Natrun, or the dismantled Marine Corps training base of Slab City, California, wagering long-term …

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April 2012 / Poetry

Life Is a Carnival

April 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Karen Solie

Dinner finished, wine in hand, in a vaguely competitive spirit of disclosure, we trail Google Earth’s invisible pervert through the streets of our hometowns, but find them shabbier, or grossly …

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March 2008 / Poetry

Tractor

March 12, 2008June 28, 2017 - by Karen Solie

More than a storey high and twice that long, it looks igneous, the Buhler Versatile 2360, possessed of the ecology of some hellacious minor island on which options are now …

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