Perhaps for some readers and writers, modernist literary sensibilities haunt. It can haunt in the way it reemerges […]
Reviews
“Once, a friend reacting to a tickle on her arm, saw she had smacked a lacewing—green filigreed and […]
A Primer for Beauty and its Many Foils: Lia Purpura’s ...
It is tempting to believe that where lives have gone wrong, it is possible to find an early, […]
Music Within Uncompromising Landscapes: A Review of Jennifer Militello’s Knock ...
Joseph Harrington is the author of Of Some Sky (BlazeVOX Books 2018); Goodnight Whoever’s Listening (Essay Press 2015); Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan UP […]
What Do Atypicals Dream?: A Review of NOS (disorder, not ...
In Julia Madsen’s debut collection, The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland, she presents […]
On, Of, In the Heartland: A Review of The Boneyard, ...
I was Oedipa rebel Oedipa trouble but I I was always my own Oedipa (Oedipa, Act […]
Reconciling and Re-imagining a Classic: On Amy McCauley’s Oedipa
There’s a lot of talk these days about books as “projects,” so it’s refreshing for me to read […]
A Lyric Confluence in Fluid States by Heidi Czerwiec
Fifteen years after Tupelo Press released his first collection of poetry, Ilya Kaminsky delivers a stunning interplay of […]
Deafness and Silence as Weapons of Resistance or Scapegoats?: On ...
The chapbook Peninsular Scar, a short, intense collection containing several long poems, documents the imprints of a Florida […]
Fresh Confessions: On Leah Claire Kaminski’s Peninsular Scar
I don’t mean to alarm you. Texas is a Death-World . . . . –mónica teresa ortiz […]
Death Worlds: mónica teresa ortiz’ autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist
The world lives in a garden. Within it is found human intention and vegetative indifference; order and chaos; […]
Garden as Whiteboard: Emmalea Russo’s G
A fleshy truth lurks behind the poems in Luis Panini’s Destruction of the Lover, as translated by Lawrence […]