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About Hal Coase

Hal Coase is a PhD candidate at La Sapienza, University of Rome.

Hal Coase is a PhD candidate at La Sapienza, University of Rome.

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Literary Studies May 18, 2023

Before Modernism

Inventing American Lyric

Virginia Jackson

Hosted by Hal Coase
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (Princeton UP, 2023) examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the …
Poetry May 3, 2023

Artifice

Lavinia Singer

Hosted by Hal Coase
Artifice (Prototype, 2023), the debut collection by Lavinia Singer, is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craftsmanship: how works relate to beauty, and …
Poetry January 29, 2023

Hereafter

The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara

Vona Groarke

Hosted by Hal Coase
Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York while financially …
Poetry December 13, 2022

Wilder

Jemma Borg

Hosted by Hal Coase
What is still wild in us – and is it recoverable? The poems in Wilder (Liverpool UP, 2022), Jemma Borg’s second collection, are acts of excavation into the deeper and …
Poetry October 10, 2022

Daylight Has Already Come

Kristina Marie Darling

Hosted by Hal Coase
Kristina Marie Darling’s Daylight Has Already Arrived (Black Lawrence Press, 2022) spans six years and countless styles. Motifs and images reappear, but the formal choices are wide-ranging. The poet utilizes prose …