http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ANIMALS-OF-DAWN.pdf Poet, translator and essayist, Murat Nemet-Nejat grew up in Istanbul, came to the […]
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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, ...
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 her 2011 book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson raises Kafka’s famous question: “‘If the book we […]
“CRUELTY OF THE ARGO?”: MAGGIE NELSON’S THE ARGONAUTS
All too often, writers approach […]
THE POSTMODERN LYRIC AS COLLECTIVE DISENCHANTMENT: THREE BOOKS BY ...
Second Empire is an astounding symphonic arrangement. Richie Hofmann’s Beatrice Hawley Award winning debut is arranged in four […]
Second Empire by Richie Hofmann
Emily Dickinson’s The Gorgeous Nothings offers an incredible inquiry into the material practice of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and […]
Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems Hold New Pleasures
All too often, the small presses that populate the contemporary cultural landscape remind us just how […]
“A thread across the universe”: Three Recent Titles from the ...
I am the fable with a mouth… This line from “Ballad for Kissing Beneath the Tawdry Fireworks” encapsulates […]
Four Cities by Hala Alyan
A choice: the castle, the chapel, or else the exploded gunpowder manufactory... What happens when the space […]
Dark Archive: On G.C. Waldrep’s Testament & its Sources
With the sophistication of its dialectical movement, the gravitas of its ethical appeal, and the mercy of its […]
A Noncommittal Engagement: Citizen by Claudia Rankine
In 2014, Octopus Books published an anthology of work by poet Wong May, whose 1969 collection, A Bad […]