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I’ve never forgotten Husker Du’s “I’ll Never Forget You,” when Bob Mould’s vocals ripped the title lyric eight times through vinyl fabric and into my bloodstream. Like everyone else I loved hardcore, but this song was about emotion unleashed—both anger at a friend’s betrayal and agonizing remorse at the friendship’s loss. Looking at the lyrics by themselves over the past …
Sentimental Spectacular, Nate Pritts (Mondo Bummer, 2010)
Nate Pritts’ chapbook Sentimental Spectacular contains five poems, a short collection, even for a chapbook. Though slight, Sentimental Spectacular mines the sentimental for careful, specific image and sound, crafting a work that’s, yes, deeply sentimental, but one willing both to celebrate its sentimentality and to search for a major key of resonance in its reader. “Darling, darling, darling,” reads the title poem, “there’s something sensational in the way / my heart takes on …
Danielle Pafunda at Tarpaulin Sky
New Directions published a beautiful reprint edition of Louis Zukofsky’s A in 2011. Here is a tribute to the book featuring poems and short essays by Marina Blitshteyn, L.S. Asekoff, Adam Day, Ted Dodson, Seth…
CK: High school: listened to “Carolyn’s Fingers” 152 times at least senior year. No one knows. No iPod to count the number of listens. In the car. On the way to school. On the city bus. Walking through leaves. Had …