Review #31: ‘Slow German Adjectives’ by Donald Dunbar
For starters, this collection takes on Mary Oliver, Ronald Reagan, Peggy Noonan, Thom Yorke, Suicide Bombers and iPhone…
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Review #30: ‘Ameriscopia’ by Edwin Torres
This dystopic collection examines what it means to give voice to America via a Puerto Rican vantage point, utilizing new forms and intense repetitions to dizzying effect from chanting and ranting to narratives broken into fractured paratactic lyrics.
Review #29: ‘Theophobia’ by Bruce Beasley
Disclosures: For over 25 years, Beasley’s antinomian sermons have renewed my faith in the Art.
Review #28: ‘Church of Needles’ by Sarah Sousa
Perhaps the secret to adult prayer has been this: the more concrete its particulars, the greater possibility of its actually being heard.
Review #27: ‘Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa’ by Joshua Edwards
…this peripatetic project that traverses almost 700 miles, a photograph taken every hour while on the road to document a walking tour reminiscent of the ones the Romantic Poets once took through the Lake District.
Review #26: ‘Sun Bear’ by Matthew Zapruder
Literary history will be merciless when it comes to our posthumous standing, most all of us surely to be erased, consigned to a dusty footnote in contemporary culture’s vast forgotten tomes, if that.
Review #25: ‘proxy’ by r. erica doyle
Straight jocks who chortle in the locker room, “huh huh, like what can two women actually do in…
‘Soul in Space’ by Noelle Kocot
“because // In the end, in the very end, it’s / Just you. You and you. And…
Review #24: ‘Vernacular Scholarship, or the Pleasures of a Painful Book’ by Eileen Myles
Here’s some Required Reading, this pamphlet, this feuilleton composed in the continental tradition of a Robert Walser, embodying…
Review #23: ‘The Collected Poems of Ai’
Before the reading started, she announced, “I’m feeling horny tonight! Which of you hot gentlemen are going to drive me back to my motel when this thing is over?”