Poetry. Kimberly Lyons's title derives from Latin vulgate and refers to burnt embers. Elizabeth Robinson praises Kimberly Lyons for lyric that "pours out from its mythic eggshell lost traces of amniotic fluid that every reader needs if she is to rea...
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Poetry. John Godfrey wrote these poems during 2011 and 2012 in Manhattan's East Village, where he's lived since the 1960s. Charles Bernstein finds, "an evanescent lilt... Perception becomes an aroma of reflection and infatuation in John Godfrey's fr...
Poetry. Here is the new, moving and hilarious book of poems from Michael Gottlieb, a key first-gen Language poet. Many of Michael Gottlieb's pieces have been adopted for the stage, including his poem about 9/11, "The Dust," which Ron Silliman named ...
Poetry. ONE-LINERS by Vincent Katz advances a classic mode of social discourse (not to mention critique). Molière would dig it! as would Kenneth Koch who depicts Katz as "an expert guide to pleasure." This is Vincent Katz's new collection of short p...
Poetry. Magazine. CD-ROM. In the mid 1970s Alan Davies edited forty issues of the influential magazine A HUNDRED POSTERS. Approximately one hundred poets were published, many more than once, with some represented by single-author issues. The magazin...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Critical Writing. Responding to MEMOIR AND ESSAY Ron Silliman writes, "Michael Gottlieb saw it all, did it all & appears to have taken notes. MEMOIR AND ESSAY is a personal history of the evolution of Language poetry in ...
Poetry. The plan for POST~TWYLA, first published abroad in 2006, was to spoof John Ashbery's book-length poem Flow Chart by way of three-line ersatz haiku, a contradictory format to the prolixity of the original. Jack Kimball explains, "Problem was ...
Poetry. In her introduction to Susie Timmons's first collection of poems, Alice Notley noted Timmons's personality, her "naked" train of thought and, above all, her wit. "I just want to know what she's going to say next... Witty doesn't just mean fu...
Poetry. The seven poems that make up (SOMA)TIC MIDGE were each written after eating a single color of food for a day, and carrying the color externally. For the RED poem CA Conrad ate only red foods while wearing a red wig, right side straight, left...
Poetry. From a longer sequence of "ODES & fragments" these select few entail the processes of ruminative thought as they go over the edge into careening feeling."The reader is placed in an immanent experience. We pass our thought through the poems, ...
Poetry. CAConrad describes ORIZABA: A VOYAGE WITH HART CRANE as "one of the most important literary ventures into Gender Questioning, told through the magic of Hart Crane with the magic hand of Stacy Szymaszek. If this isn't essential reading at the...
Poetry. Today's language is mortal, a temporary format for perpetual urges. Fatality v. pleasuring, then what? Satirical wildfire is one way to carry on, as are fabulous predictions about late-XXIst-century historicism. PATHOLOGIES goes both ways fo...
Poetry. "In Brenda Iijima's SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT the mirror wraps around the body like a form fitting garment and exudes the idiosyncratic fractality of its rebellious inhabitants. Efflorescent pulsations interrogate steel. Angular feet seek mischi...
Poetry. "You can't teach God anything," Jeni Olin writes. An ambulance cools its jets in the arboretum, and she asks, "What have you got roughly in your breast?" The improvised reality series THE PILL BOOK disseminates a plethora of diagnoses and a ...
Poetry. In 1961 Jack Spicer wrote: "It is not unfair to say that a city is a collection of humans. Human beings. In their municipal trust they sit together in cities. They talk together in cities. They form groups. Even when they do not form groups ...