The collection’s first poem is a call to attention. A tolling. “Belle,” and its homophonic first line, “The […]
Kristina Marie Darling
Goodbye Mexico: Poems of Remembrance is, at its heart, a series of poems of love for the nation […]
Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance, Edited by Sarah Cortez
Torque. The tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis, fulcrum, or pivot. Just as […]
Oblige the Light by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
A native of Aleppo who grew up in Benghazi and relocated to Milan, the Maronite and opera-lover Basili […]
Dark Tour: A Review of Alessandro Spina’s The Confines ...
“The scorpion/ is her sigil. Her love song on the battlefield,/ her war-cry in the senseless fields. Survive/ […]
Latest Volcano by Tana Jean Welch
To read u&i, Cassandra Smith’s frustratingly gorgeous and gorgeously frustrating full-length collection of poetry, is to be immersed […]
“WE NEVER LEFT THE ROOM WE MADE OF IT”: MEANING, ...
The Little Edges is a large-format book that contains what Moten calls “shaped prose,” which according to the […]
The Little Edges by Fred Moten
More often than not, we envision a moment of transcendence as pure wonder, what John Dewey described as […]
THE LOVELIEST ARROW: NOTES ON THE DARK SUBLIME
In Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Camille Rankine reaches for her reader with her generous range of poetic forms and her […]
Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine
LABOR, Jill Magi’s book-length poetic excavation of our oppressive economic landscape, begins with an index. It begins with […]
REVISING THE ARCHIVE: On Jill Magi’s LABOR
Laura Mullen’s Complicated Grief is one of the rare books that shows what it’s like to know another […]
Complicated Grief by Laura Mullen
In her 2011 book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson raises Kafka’s famous question: “‘If the book we […]