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From the press: A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award

From NMB: The term “closet drama” has been used to describe poetic plays that are meant to be read on the page

Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it

” With her signature incisive perspective

NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ the poem hints at theFrom the press: I thanked the man and left the store and confetti fell slowly inside my heart. Ben is adrift. A fact checker at a New York gossip magazine, he is well versed in the breezy cruelty that makes the modern world go and yet hopelessly drawn to the wonders that world continues to turn up. The hypnotic asymmetry of escalators. A perfectly chilled water fountain. The essential freedom of dogs. Into the stream of this private joy steps a young