The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces, by Max Wolf Valerio

EOAGH Books, 2019 Poetry / Transgender Studies / Indigenous Studies ISBN 978-1-5323-5926-2 $20 Order from Asterism (link coming soon). To order from the Publisher directly: Payment Options Individual Purchase $20.00 USDBookstore Purchase $12.00 USD This long-awaited volume collects poetry from the 80’s and 90’s by Max Wolf Valerio, one of the first trans poets to publish a book of poems in the US. The punk … Continue reading The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces, by Max Wolf Valerio

The Practice of Worlds: Will Alexander’s “Compression and Purity”

by Gary Sloboda I first encountered Will Alexander’s poetry after enduring (almost willingly) a six-year lapse in my own writing.  To a recovering non-writer, the amplitude of Alexander’s poetry exploded and reinvigorated what had degenerated into the shorn lingual sphere I had come to inhabit.  Since reading Alexander’s works, such as Asia & Haiti, Above the Human Nerve Domain, and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, his … Continue reading The Practice of Worlds: Will Alexander’s “Compression and Purity”