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Jonathan Coe Continuum ($29.95) by Scott Esposito Why has Jonathan Coe—author of several distinguished, if decidedly non-experimental, novels—spent the last seven years writing a biography

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Octavia E. Butler Seven Stories Press ($24.95) by Shannon Gibney Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling offers a new vision of the Other, one which is grounded as firmly

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Jonathan Skinner Palm Press ($15.95) by Francis Raven Jonathan Skinner's Political Cactus Poems is a slim but relatively ambitious contribution to the field of contemporary experimental ecopoetics,