”A letter implies two contradictory states are one and the same: distance and intimacy. It is a paradoxical condition desire clarifies but can’t resolve, a form of profound insecurity (the I not sufficient to itself, nor the you to itself) out of wh...
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Patrick Morrissey's latest collection of poems. In LIGHT BOX, Patrick Morrissey’s third collection, the poet explores the mysteries and intimacies of life in the city as they intersect with the pleasures and realities of family life. In lines of ly...
Nathaniel Mackey’s ongoing serial epic, in which Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu,” “the two now understood as two and the same, each the other’s understudy,” proliferating wildly and oneirically through the course of nine books, has established its...
“Tirzah Goldenberg’s LIKE AN OLIVE opens a space for me interior to the word, moves by some expansive mobility anterior to the letter, at once unfurling and embroidering, at once a hermitage below image and a vessel whose play of absence carries, li...
Poetry. Edited by Andrew Peart. In 2015, while, in his words, "dismantling my house in New Jersey and preparing it for sale," Ed Roberson discovered in some envelopes in his attic a manuscript he thought lost, drawn from the experiences of the summe...
Poetry. In an agitated, elegiac, and personalized series of poetic propositions, Joel Felix in CONCEALED NATIONS, his follow up to LIMBS OF THE APPLE TREE NEVER DIE, engages questions of justice both racial and social, white survivalism and gun-righ...
Poetry. "Recitative is speaking. Song is repeating." With this enigmatic declaration, Thomas Meyer begins MODERN LOVE: SONGS, rewriting Dante's Vita Nuova for a new age. "Song," declares the poet, "go find Love / and have him take you / to my love a...
Poetry. In Patrick Morrissey's WORLD MUSIC, the poet turns the crank on the machine made of words to reveal it as a music box providing an artful tune to accompany pictures of a shifting world, with city scenes of New York and Chicago, with garbage ...
Poetry. "ALEPH: From the silence of this letter title springs forth a book rich in thin lines of force. There's an essential echo that runs through these poems, an echo of an old beginning. Like the oil pressed from olives, what these poems give for...
Poetry. On a scale extending from the minutely observed to species apocalypse, from the daily facts of raising children and housekeeping to the premonition that "cancer is tending / to erase the fathomable / wartech mindmanacle," Alicia Cohen gives ...
Poetry. Keeping vigil through the night in the realm of the Terra Lucida, which, according to Islamic scholar Henry Corbin, is "the land that secretes its own light," Joseph Donahue's DARK CHURCH lures a pilgrim fraught with memories of modernity an...
Poetry. Mnemosyne as memory is mother to the nine muses, who bring us forgetfulness of evil and rest from pain, according to the epic poets. But what does the lyric poet do with the mother of the muses, when his language is plosives and assonance er...
Poetry. To what degree do the Civil War in ancient Rome and the civil rights struggle in the United States resonate in our present moment of clashing public interests and disparities of race and class? In Limbs of the Apple Tree Never Die, his first...