“The brilliance of her engagement with this simple structure is an honesty as to composition’s value, or at least, the ways we ordinarily conceive of its value.”
An Act of Love from the Dream to Hamilton: Diana Hamilton’s “The Awful Truth” Read More »
I want to think about distance and Jane Gregory’s new book of poems, Yeah No. Or something more like gapping. A space between concepts charged with those concepts’ distance, what holds discourse together (and molecules, and planets).
Notes toward Jane Gregory’s “Yeah No” Read More »
“One of the things I most wanted to explore was desire that can’t be sated. What happens when you get what you want (or think you want) and it’s not enough? What happens when you want something that doesn’t exist?”
Here is the Room I Want to Fill with Birds: An Interview with Caitlin Bailey Read More »
“Unless one practices medicine or works with medical literature, one is unlikely to encounter the enormous mass of words used to describe the things that go wrong with us. But the words are out there, multisyllabic and waiting.”
To Describe Our World: An Interview with Kevin O’Rourke Read More »
Written in 1958 but given due packaging in a new book from Song Cave, Lionel Ziprin’s “Songs for Schizoid Siblings” are, at the simplest assessment, a historical oddity.
Sweetmeats to Cure: Lionel Ziprin’s “Songs for Schizoid Siblings” Read More »
