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    Staff Picks: Degradation, Demolition, Disillusion

    by The Paris Review Sep 01, 2017 3 minutes

    Brianna McCarthy, Garden of Lost Things. From the cover of Electric Arches.

    Eve Ewing is a sociologist of education, so it’s no wonder my favorite poem in her first collection, , observes the small, curious eddies of interaction in an elementary school. In “Requiem for Fifth Period and the Things That Went On Then,” she writes in the style of Greek epic poetry about invisible, individually insignificant moments—about the science teacher, for instance, watching fourth-grader Javonte Stevens telling the gym coach “that Miss Kaizer will be

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