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Sarah Cronin | Rev. Diane Sullivan Nothing beats curling up with a good book somewhere cozy in the winter. That should be especially true this winter as we collectively hunker down and wait our turn for the coronavirus vaccines and for warmer, hopefully pandemic-free days ahead. But many of us have already plowed though our nightstand stacks over the past nine months of isolation, leaving us with a pressing question: What to read? Fortunately, Vermont authors have not stopped churning out fre...

Soul by Devyn Thompson, Lulu Publishing, 110 pages. $16. The 19-year-old woman whose poetry I've been reading alternately rages with political protest and coos with gender-bending sensuality and self-discovery. On the first page of her book, titled simply Soul, Devyn Thompson is photographed in black and white and is shockingly posed to look like she's hanging herself. On page 21, she wears a slinky red dress and looks over her shoulder; the continent of Africa is tattooed on her back. The page delivers one word: "Desire." Along with the daring chameleon depic...