Mike Soto’s inaugural collection, A Grave is a Given Supper, is forceful and varied, shedding unflinching light on the intricate paths of two protagonists, Topito and Consuelo.
On March 16, 1982 the New York Times reported that “Valerie Chacon, 31 years old, was said to have died at home of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head […] she had apparently been upset because her husband would not quit the ring until after his next fight.” Over 30 years later, on September 10th, 2016 another …
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In Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Walter Pater notes that criticism is never impartial: “in aesthetic criticism the first step to seeing one’s object as it really is, is to know one’s impression as it really is, to discriminate it, to realise it distinctly.” The work of art is never detached from an …
Candor and Critique: On Greg Gerke’s See What I See Read More »
The warm reception of an earlier volume similarly titled Revolutionary Rehearsals and published in 1987 raises sensible expectations for a new collection, Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: 1989-2019. The 1987 edition features five reflections on revolutionary situations: the French general strike of May 1968, Chile from 1972–73, Portugal from 1974–75, Iran in 1979 and …
Revolt in the Age of Neoliberalism: Revolutionary Rehearsals 1989–2019 Read More »
It’s very possible that CAConrad is the most interesting poet currently working in the United States. Either that, or they’re our most bewildering. Perhaps both. AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration, CAConrad’s most recent book, has only reinforced my view of the poet. I’m not alone; in their review of CAConrad’s 2010 collection, The Book of Frank, Eileen Miles wrote that “for me, …
The poems in Fady Joudah’s Tethered to Stars reflect a poet’s pinnacle, where readers experience the vision of a virtuosic poet who possesses multiple registers and allusive riches, transforming them into a polyphonic symphony. This is a poet who slays artificially constructed boundaries of what constitutes text by hybridizing earthly and spiritual crevices, narrative and …
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