Poetry. "For the first nine months it's like watching an approaching storm on a black and white TV. And when the static clouds, thumps and clicks turn warm and writhing in your arms, you're already in the teeth of it and it's only just begun. In two...

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Poetry. "The poems of Jared Schickling's AURORA are distinguished by their parenthetical titles, titles which serve as interludes as in '(war in the street) / (or, Note To Self)' or as digressions, suggesting that the poem functions beyond or withou...

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Poetry. "THE MERCURY POEM sifts through the aftermath of nuclear meltdown and lets the senses piece us together. A puzzle: in this our time of ever-expanding exclusion zones, how to take cover / take care inside foregone conclusion? What is not forg...

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Poetry. "What is 'common ground?' How does it come about in a nation? In a poem? In Schickling's project, limning the portals between expression and repression, common ground is sought and thwarted, and sought again, bringing to bear the grand proje...

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Poetry. THE PINK reads like a bio-centric futurist work of patterned effeminate lyricism and distortion whose themes are fatherhood, motherhood, and childhood, while playing heartily at inherited themes and motifs through re-worked fairy tales, obse...

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Poetry. "Poetry is not another way of telling you what to think. Sure, be a poet, and humble(d). Jared Schickling's PROVINCE OF NUMB ERRS is a relief: out of monotime ("This time has no here its All here u / go"); avoiding collisions with prevalent ...

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Poetry. "The poems in Jared Schickling's SUBMISSIONS explore the dislocations between self, community, and our desiccated political and ecological landscapes. The pressures of such disasters may be a point of departure for these poems, but they move...

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Poetry. "Only a coherent perception of life, informed by artistic engagement, can offer the cynic of a dark age any hope or enlightenment, and make a largely brutish, inhuman existence bearable, enabling us to interpret life's strangeness through th...

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Poetry. "TWO BOOKS ON THE GAS splits us in two: ABOVE THE SHALE is 'Diving into the Wreck' for a credible earth, both aboveground and below. The topics are fracking and love and political violence and ashes in known states of fractured experience. T...

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Poetry. "This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that operates like an ecology. It is, among other qualities, indifferent to whether I u...

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