Features View all

Creative Engagement with Eileen Myles’ <em>Snowflake</em>

Creative Engagement with Eileen Myles’ Snowflake

by j/j hastain Review of Snowflake / Different Streets Wave Books, 2012 I do not sense much difference (in tone of language or in language…

WRI(GH)TE [ING] PUNCTUATION: READING LESLIE SCALAPINO

by Jordan Antonucci Scalapino’s The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom is remarkable in its physical and lyrical layers. It takes its readers to an imaginative space that…

“If I didn’t write it down, it’s shhhhh”: On Writing Dementia.

“If I didn’t write it down, it’s shhhhh”: On Writing Dementia.

“If I didn’t write it down, it’s shhhhh”: On Writing Dementia Edited by Susan M.…

In the Absence of Words

In the Absence of Words

by Beatriz Terrazas   Words used to come easily to me. Words to speak, words…

Lucy Church, Amiably

Lucy Church, Amiably

by Michael D. Snediker Those who do not know that to say so is this.…

Reviews View all

<em>The Last Vispo Anthology</em>, edited by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill

The Last Vispo Anthology, edited by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill

Review by Alison Watkins The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill, editors Fantagraphic Books, 2012 The Last Vispo Anthology, by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill,…

Black-Eyed Heifer, by Shelly Taylor

Black-Eyed Heifer, by Shelly Taylor

Black-Eyed Heifer Shelly Taylor Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010 Opening myself to these poems in Shelly Taylor’s Black-Eyed Heifer, I feel the hinterland of inside. Movement into place, feeling the erasure…

Dream on Dreamer: Testify, by Joseph Lease

Dream on Dreamer: Testify, by Joseph Lease

Review by Anne Elena Eyre Testify Joseph Lease Coffee House Books, 2011 America. Where are the bodies in the streets? Surely there’s enough to protest as there was if ever…

A Homeric Echo: Lisa Jarnot’s Iliad XXII

A Homeric Echo: Lisa Jarnot’s Iliad XXII

Review by Piotr Gwiazda The Iliad Book XXII: The Death of Hector by Lisa Jarnot Atticus/Finch Books, 2006 Bookthug (Toronto), 2007 It is often noted about Homer, the “compiler of…

Sherwood Forest, by Camille Roy

Sherwood Forest, by Camille Roy

Review by Alyse Bensel Sherwood Forest Camille Roy Futurepoem Books, 2011 ISBN: 978-0982279854 128 pp Paperback: $16.00 Sherwood Forest, Camille Roy’s sixth poetry collection, exposes the performance of gender. Marginalized…

Books View all

Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy

Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy

EOAGH Books, 2011 ISBN 978-0-578-05882-5 Poetry / Fiction / Literature 82 Pages $17 Order from SPD…