Poetry. A foreign native lives attentive to ifs. These poems are bodies walking out news, sound tracers, raw history in civic flesh, theaters of identity and talks in love. Poetry is a foreign native in our plans for language; it makes paradoxes of ...
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Poetry. Barbara Tomash's PRE- reawakens her reader to the marvel of language, the common currency of encounter, media, negotiation, courtship. Collecting, collating, collaging the manifold threads spawned by the action of prefixes, the poet "[fixes]...
Poetry. Religion & Spirituality. Relentlessly playful and celebratory, GO WITH ME meditates on life with young children, holding one's beloveds close, making art, embracing the death of a mentor—the proximate contiguous to the infinite, all and noth...
Poetry. "What's the ANYJAR? I think it's a space where anyone keeps loss. Or it is itself loss, but it's also the jar you make to store loss in. When you are building what you are simultaneously trying to understand, it's easy to get stuck in it, be...
Poetry. Anastacia Reneé's FORGET IT draws the reader into the churning seas of dissolution — marriage, family, identity, livelihood — in language unknotted from the constraints of punctuation, syntax, sense— "eaten into seedless cherries"—and plunge...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Angela Veronica Wong's ELSA unfolds the story of a fictional 18th-century French demimondaine and mistress of Louis XV. Meditating on gender, identity, and the precarity of women's lives against the scrim of patriarchal powe...
Poetry. In PLAYING THE FORM, James Maughn continues his exploration of the intersections between poetry and martial arts. This is a poetry of haptic resonance, built around the three sections of the Yang Family Tai Chi long form, and grounded in dai...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "Mg Roberts' ANEMAL UTER MECK defies category at every turn. Here we are repeatedly being reborn into different forms as we heal our severed wings and fly. Our new body inhabitations are woven with scars and o...
Poetry. "Marci Nelligan writes: 'I don't know what I am but I am not this body only; every woman a distance from her skin by some measure of the measure of the world.' With Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian as both inspiration and site of interrogati...
Poetry. "Forgetfulness and remembering are two sides of the same coin—and that coin is anybody! Reading Eileen Tabios, we are reminded about the extent to which we are, after all, the sum of our experiences, and the extent to which my experiences ma...
Poetry. "'The exhausted object have no body of work," says one poem in Kimberly Alidio's AFTER PROJECTS THE RESOUND. But that's just surface. Ever lurking and in ALL CAPS even are potential poems that would affirm, 'LOL AGENCY AND THE COURAGE TO SPE...
Poetry. "Styl(us)istically innovative, Baudelairian, ballsy and deliciously infectious as a record you want to lay the needle on again and again, reading Mark Lamoureux's exhilarating and moving prose-poem/poetic-prose 'album,' IT'LL NEVER BE OVER F...
Poetry. "Jen Tynes' HUNTER MONIES is a tracking expedition. I find myself hooked on a voice, and I wander behind it. It echoes and distorts. It turns corners, and I hurry after it, and, only after catching it, do I realize the corner was a horse, th...
Poetry. "Jesse Nissim writes: 'I am freely quoting a fantasy for less. / I call it a capitalism of the low roof, it is located / along the river with the continual pay per view.' Jesse Nissim's poems burn with a hard, gemlike flame; they call on us ...
Poetry. Drama. Film Studies. "THE MESHES, by quadruple hyphenate Brittany Billmeyer-Finn (poet-playwright-community organizer-arts educator) is a creative four-part record of the author's imaginative engagement with the films and aesthetics of the l...