“Leslie Scalapino is a stunningly original writer. Poised on an edge between space and claustrophobia, this poet bears stark witness to the broken narratives of thousands dead or off shore. CROWD AND NOT EVENING OR LIGHT scatters literary criticism,...
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Art. Poetry. IN SPACE IN SITU is a book of Amy Evans McClure's art, twenty-seven color photographs of ceramic sculptures, with an essay by editor for Art in America, Michael Duncan, and poetry by Michael McClure. Evans McClure's sculptures, such as ...
Poetry. Art. Nonfiction. WAR AND PEACE 4: VISION AND TEXT is devoted to collaborations between visual works and poetry, includes collaborative works of Charles Bernstein with Susan Bee, Amy Evans McClure with Michael McClure, Kiki Smith with Leslie ...
Poetry. Cross-Genre. Drama. "M. Mara-Ann's long hybrid, hypnotic poem-theater work of spoken-music text is ecological structure based on the national report on global warming. The footnote-archipelagos require one to turn back to the origin and reor...
Poetry. Alicia Cohen's poems are divided into mysterious sections that, crossing-over, also all held at once tie wolf-children or people who are animals other than human to nations as if in-formed in the text's transpiration as if identity set in te...
Poetry. Borrowing Tolstoy's title and basing the anthology's manifestation of War and Peace on the conception that everything goes on in war and peace, the editors, Judith Goldman and Leslie Scalapino, have gathered forty poets on the theme of "The ...
Poetry. "COVERS is a tour de translation that brings Dante up to speed with the 21st century. Deftly shifting registers between Inferno-speak and news-speak, Susan Landers antes up a resolute refusal to refract the rapture of the 'blood shuffle' aft...
Poetry. "Tim Atkins does for translation what Gertrude Stein did for nouns. He's turned Horace inside out, and booby-trapped the works with strategically explosive pregnant shock and awe. Pope and Dryden have nothing on this guy: Horace has arrived"...
Poetry. "In this violent and deeply accusatory book the cause and the effect are the restoration of our historical context as crime. The crime being murder. DEATHSTAR/RICO-CHET: The canceled check of a civilization. Somehow I don't think that Pound ...
Poetry. "'We can no longer use/ words without becoming dirty ourselves.' In PARCEL, Cox has written a book that speaks to our time, as though she had spent the night awake, her palms burning, mind afire. She doesn't stint, she writes as she thinks, ...
Poetry. Presented as a set of thirty "clips" (often accompanied by one or two "examples"), this wonderful new series of poems by E. Tracy Grinnell has both a cinematic quality (the works proceed in frames and flickers) and something of the recurrent...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Few things have changed the terrain of US literature in recent years as much as the global spread of English. The question that haunts much of this literature is less what it means to be an American and more what it ...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Paolo Javier's 60 LV BO(E)MBS is one of the most radically detourned poetics that I've encountered in a long time. Rocking hard the perimeter of a national American literary metabolic center, Javier deftly develops w...
Poetry. "Nathanson's HOME ON THE RANGE is an energetic, original and curious work, roaming among poetry, fiction, and dream--a "travel" narrative traversing many haunted semantic sites. Whitman-inspired in its scope and interactive probing, yet also...
Poetry. "So millions of us woke up on a cold rock in the middle of a lake of smoldering tar. A hard-core getting to know you kind of affair, not only to keep alert and moving, but also singing & dancing & writing. In Fuller's STARTLE RESPONSE, the c...