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Bores wrote in his 1590 chapbook a year later that Stumpp’s head was also severed from his body and placed upon a stake, providing a gruesome warning to the community.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Her first publication was a chapbook of poems, 1983’s The Women Who Hate Me. 1988’s Trash, a book of essays, brought her critical acclaim.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
Few bookstores were willing to carry Shameless Hussy’s publications, not just because of the content — there was not, at first, an appetite for such bold feminist writing — but also because of the format: spineless, stapled chapbooks, like zines.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 17 May 2024
Her 2011 chapbook, Catacombs, and her 2016 poetry collection, Cannibal, deploy vivid descriptions of Jamaica’s lush terrain and native wildlife, to haunting effect.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Her first publication was a chapbook of poems, 1983’s The Women Who Hate Me. 1988’s Trash, a book of essays, brought her critical acclaim.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
Few bookstores were willing to carry Shameless Hussy’s publications, not just because of the content — there was not, at first, an appetite for such bold feminist writing — but also because of the format: spineless, stapled chapbooks, like zines.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 17 May 2024
Her 2011 chapbook, Catacombs, and her 2016 poetry collection, Cannibal, deploy vivid descriptions of Jamaica’s lush terrain and native wildlife, to haunting effect.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
See All Example Sentences for chapbook
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“Chapbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chapbook. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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