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Summer 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 3 Poetry |

Death Styles 1.8.21 

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Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books in various genres, most recently The Necropastoral, a critical work on Decadent ecopoetics, in the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series, and Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat, 2020), a poetry collection for which she won an Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a founding editor of the international press Action Books and teaches at Notre Dame.

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