Poetry. "The speculative interruptions of this collection of organs—renamed, repurposed and disguised as a book of poems—sculpt the shape between varied and intimate utterances. It is cruel and consoling, internal, viscous, full and delicate."—Steph...
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Poetry. "Nathan Hauke's INDIAN SUMMER RECYCLING reminds us that the ethics of recycling inscribe also a loss of origin. In the world of things—which includes people, and the language in which we describe those things—hierarchy vanishes. Animal, mine...
Poetry. "If a self is partly created through a flow of information, what is the sound of its interruption? What violence has a constrained self endured before escape? What lyrics accompany that endurance? If 'tyranny / controls the air,' how does on...
Poetry. A dated "poemlogue," LANDS OF YIELD transcribes Tokyo's fantastic sensorium via rigid syllabics and mutating form. In dialogue with Joe Brainard's I Remember, Bernadette Mayer's early durational works, and various diaries, the text also fora...
Poetry. '"I took much trouble into myself,' says Tim Earley at the beginning of this audacious and revelatory book. Like an Appalachian Whitman, he consumes everything — work, kinship, sex, love, illness, religion, and violence (both invasion and se...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Latino/Latina Studies. "THE SOMNAMBULIST, a no-holds-barred monodrama, jolts the reader awake. Lara Mimosa Montes is a startling and powerful poet, who opts for vertigo, and whose greatest virtue may be her ability to perform f...
Poetry. "I like this book a lot. I found a lot of surprises in the way the sentences worked. I was taken down a path cognitively and then thrust into a situation that made me use my psychedelic brain. I like being asked to do that. TWO TEENAGERS see...
Poetry. "A spell that works every time isn't a spell, yet a potent text may reliably reveal a state in which the unknown works in us as elixir, marking, remaking us. Make no mistake, these words are alive like a million mouths of velvet. Open this b...
Poetry. "'I am on dead songbird patrol...' Phil Estes's poems start out as slacker jokes but then they go wrong. Sometimes they go so wrong that they become frightening and politically charged or become beautiful meditations on art. Or do both at th...
Poetry. "A funny, mournful contempo apocalypse-narrative-Ezekialesque, lightly; fast-morphing Rimbaudian prose, spangly; Celanian neologisms, cast conversationally. These poems are fancy, not in an imagination-on-the-cheap sense but in an astral-obs...
Poetry. Following in a long line of acts of piracy by women writers (Kathy Acker's Pussy, King of the Pirates), Kristi Maxwell proves herself a masterful ventriloquist. Slipping her hand into through a card game (Royalty), a children's book, histori...
Poetry. "There's a beautiful epigraph that invites us into THE JITTERS: '…am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?' The jitters, the junk, the pain, the fortitude to remain here as 'a new creature /… brave enough / to be wounded.' Ann...
Poetry. African American Studies. Women's Studies. "In my father's house are many mansions," Jesus promised. In her deftly-aimed, disarmingly poised debut, Nikki Wallschlaeger leads us phrase by phrase through the many dim and brightly lit houses of...
Poetry. "The best collaborations to my mind are the ones which preserve sympathy and difference, and Sara Peck and Jared Joseph's HERE YOU ARE achieves this beautifully. Far from the seamless surface of musical thoughts presented in a given order th...
Poetry. "What if the secret heart of rural America were a still waiting, an all-but-silent psalm? These lyrics are delicate, involuted fossils of a trance-like attention that somehow does not exclude chronic underemployment, neighbors up on assault ...