Richard Broderick’s Jesus of Walmart,
Reviewed by George Wallace

Richard Broderick Jesus of Walmart New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-019-9 Reviewer: George Wallace   One might wonder, given a title like Jesus of Walmart, what kind of admixture of commentary poet Richard Broderick is going to offer concerning the presence of the sacred and the profane in contemporary American society. What immediately comes to […]

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The Moment a Husband Stops Being a Husband and Starts Being a Black and White Photograph of a Husband You were imagining little mountains         in the soap bubbles in the bathroom sink all summer long and you forgot you were a leopard,                    meant to spot everything.                                                 More darkness every day. You wouldn’t know when, exactly, […]