A Catalogue of Us with All: Juliana Spahr’s “Well Then There Now”
where do 'we' go from here? How do we build, assume, curate a new 'us'?
where do 'we' go from here? How do we build, assume, curate a new 'us'?
Siobhan PhillipsFeb 22, 2012
YOU WAKE UP IN A NEW CITY, but you don't know which one it is. Before the rational part of your mind kicks in, while the traffic blurs past, your...
Peter CampionJan 19, 2012
GIVEN THE MANY USES and abuses of the word "freedom," it stands to reason that our poetic history has produced a little epitome of its vexations...
Ange MlinkoJan 19, 2012
The Cows seems particularly playful, gentle. Her consciousness here bristles, stirs, even strains, but it rarely furrows or breaks.
Matthew SpecktorNov 8, 2011
California has always been a home for poets; it’s also always been mostly a poem itself.
Ed SkoogOct 13, 2011
CHINESE NOTEBOOK is a runic book. The poems are like lost clues scribbled in the margin of some other, longer, duller book; they're not pieces of...
Stan AppsAug 25, 2011
Negro League Baseball may be tough going for the average reader, yet its rewards are bountiful.
Sean SingerJun 30, 2011
Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them.
Eric GudasJun 30, 2011
MATTHEW ZAPRUDER WILL SPEAK TO YOU. This isn’t a metaphor, or a mere recommendation: it’s a description of method. In “Come On All You Ghosts...
Siobhan PhillipsJun 9, 2011
A real-life horror lies at the heart of Hicok's book.
Charles Harper WebbJun 9, 2011
TIMOTHY DONNELLY'S SECOND BOOK of poetry arrives with considerable fanfare. The Cloud Corporation is a scary bedtime book, one that sometimes slips...
Daniel TiffanyApr 26, 2011