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…
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Review“a flat 9 over an unfinished chord”: A Review of Justin Limoli’s Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms] and On Romulus, While Abel Sleeps [A Chthonic Song.]
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…
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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:…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If the House by Molly Spencer University of Wisconsin Poetry Series, October 2019 96 pages / Amazon Anton Chekov is thought to have said, “Don’t tell me the moon is…
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ArtCultureReviewThe Nabis’ Eye-Pleasing Corners of Creation: Review of Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life
Edouard Vuillard, Interior with Red Bed, 1893, oil on cardboard Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life Phillips Collection, Washington DC October 26, 2019-January 26, 2020 “I don’t…
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Testamentality, Transcryption: An Emotional Memoir of Jack Spicer by Larry Kearney Spuyten Duyvil, October 2019 178 pages / Amazon Larry Kearney arrived in San Francisco in 1964. He was…
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ReviewReview: The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Norton, 2015 352 pages / Amazon William…
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Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement edited by Shelly Oria McSweeney’s, September 2019 192 pages / Amazon “Unlike other forms of psychological disorders,” Bessel van…