Ekphrasis Hybrid: A Review of Harriet Levin’s “My Oceanography”
Artists can be canaries flying down into mines or diving underwater.
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Gravity and Waggery: A Review of Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”
“What are we going to do with all those cats?”
Sacred Service: A Review of “Without Protection” & a Conversation with Gala Mukomolova
Sometimes when language is song-like and rhythmic, it’s because it’s coming from a core part of yourself that’s not interested in façade. It’s an inner layer. Like a hum, a vibrational hum in the throat
Performing Friendship: A Review of “Honey I Killed the Cats”
she stood there, smelling sweetly of sweat, shawarma, lipstick, the several different perfumes she’d quickly sprayed on herself at Sephora, hair spray, and hot love, with its intrinsic note, it so happens, of urine.
“Thermal Gestures:” A Review of W.S. Graham, NYRB Poets Series
Graham is not a poet of language so much a poet of mark and gesture. His fundamental unit of work is not the word but the expressive stroke. That is to say: he’s just another Cornish Expressionist, like his friends.