Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. by Samuel Ace / Linda Smuckler Belladonna*, May 2019 184 pages / Amazon / SPD I. “How…
The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball Ecco, September 2019 240 pages / Amazon It would be an oversimplification to call Jesse Ball’s latest novel, The Divers’ Game, a work…
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2020 240 pages / Amazon For five years, I was a waitress at a small breakfast diner in the suburbs…
As I was obsessing about sweet Arthur Fleck and super-hot Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, like many others, I started following online all of those thousand social media groups posting a thousand…
sound of wave in channel I & II by Stephen Ratcliffe BlazeVOX, October 2018 1020 pages in two volumes / SPD1, SPD2 “[T]he principle of rhyme” Stephen Ratcliffe once…
Catechesis, a postpastoral by Lindsay Lusby University of Utah Press, August 2019 (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) 64 pages / Amazon “Now: make it new…
Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms.] by Justin Limoli Plays Inverse, 2014 85 pages / SPD / Amazon / Plays Inverse On Romulus, While Abel Sleeps [A Chthonic…
Windmaps I-VII by Joseph Donahue Talisman House, September 2018 200 pages / Amazon / SPD an exegesis with illustrations O: J/D Interiority in The Book of Joseph:…
Yesterday afternoon I entered the Nitehawk Cinema out of respite from the first day of New York winter to catch an early showing of Bong Joon-Ho’s new film Parasite. I…
Dance of the cygnets from Swan Lake, the Bolshoi Ballet In May 1992, just five months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, my plane finally landed at Moscow airport.…
If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving by Brendan Lorber Subpress, June 2018 145 pages / Amazon / SPD If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still…
The Way Cities Feel to Us Now by Nathaniel Kennon Perkins Maudlin House, August 2019 160 pages / Amazon “It doesn’t seem like it right now, but I am…
Hexis by Charlene Elsby Clash Books, February 2020 (preorder now) When the London Underground was first built, the maps that indicated the direction and the stops on each line…
Alissa Quart Thoughts & Prayers, 2019: Or Books, 92 pages Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America, 2018: Ecco Press, 320 pages Forgive me if I emphasize the thought…