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Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Lisa Marie Basile’s Apocryphal (Noctuary) via Kenneth Anger, the Brothers Grimm, David Lynch, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Song of Solomon, et al. "A book whose images gleam like jewels poured down a long black hole."
rem incredibilem rati: Books Received & Available for Review
7 paperbacks & a corner-stapled lit mag from Box Turtle, Brooklyn Arts, eccolinguistics, gnOme, Les Figues, Shearsman, and University of Iowa.
Grammar: An Essay by Kristina Marie Darling
Via texts by Hanna Andrews, Inger Christensen, and Thalia Field (with Abigail Lang), Kristina Marie Darling explores how one might "speak outside the confines of grammar, without performing the familiar 'ceremony' of creating order and coherence."
ego patronus exstiti: Plinth II
There is no jot of Plinth that is not necessary. If you felt a little something extra in the air this Equinox, that was the birth of Issue #2: Brad Baumgartner, Sarah Fox, Jamalieh Haley, Laura Ellen Joyce, Peter O'Leary, Aimee Parkison, David Peak, Eugene Thacker, and TS's own dark star, Johannes Göransson.
Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment Reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
Lisa A. Flowers reviews Kate Durbin's E! Entertainment by way of Sharon Tate, Joan Didion, TS Eliot, Shirley Jackson, Anais Nin, Rilke, David Lynch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. "The bigger question E begs, perhaps, is the question of what 'evidence' is at all."
Four Things We Read at Fanzine…
after reading Jeff Jackson's brilliant interview with TS author Joyelle McSweeney and then scrolling around and thinking Wow, Fanzine publishes a lot of good stuff. Including a lot of work by women. Weird and witchy women. Hell yeah.
praeclare facta: Books Received & Available for Review
25 books from Ahsahta, Brooklyn Arts, Calamari, Coconut, Cutbank, Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Geargetown Review, Les Figues, Monkey Puzzle, New Issues, Noemi, Ricochet, Solid Objects, Spuyten Duyvil, Tin House, Verse, and White Pine Press.
iamne vides quantum tenuis natura valere possit, ubi est coniuncta gravi cum corpore, ut aer coniunctus terris et nobis est animi vis?
Received & Available: 26 books from Ahsahta, Black Ocean, Brooklyn Arts, Cervena Barva, Chaudiere, Cleveland State, Gold Line, Calamari, Coconut, Les Figues, Plays Inverse, Raw Art, Shearsman, subpress, and Twisted Spoon.
Shelly Taylor Interviewed at Guernica
"I asked myself what right did I have to put this incredibly tough work out there as I had no firsthand experience in combat and am not an overly political individual. I grappled with how this would affect my friend, my beloved, this soldier who no doubt is still in conflict about his past reality—three tours to be exact, post-9/11 to 2007. In the end, I came to understand that this is a book solely about myself...."
Michelle Detorie’s “After-Cave” reviewed by Nathan Hauke
"Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave scavenges a post-apocalyptic wasteland, fallout of a brutal misogynistic culture of privilege, to mine energy (magic) that has long been violently and systemically suppressed."
Barbara Duffey’s “Simple Machines” reviewed by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
"Simple Machines, which aptly won the 2015 Washington Prize (The Word Works), [is] a must-read book for all lovers of poetry as well as readers with affection for physics."
Ravi Shankar’s “What Else Could It Be” reviewed by Ralph Pennel
"In the poems found in Ravi Shankar’s latest collection, What Else Could It Be: Ekphrastics and Collaborations, we find ourselves positioned within the text as witness and agent to both the unutterable and illimitable ways that art exposes how we mean."
What I’m Reading Now … by Julia Cohen
Julia Cohen on Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Layli Long Soldier’s “38,” Alexis Almeida’s “It’s Growing Stronger,” and teaching creative writing in the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election.
Vi Khi Nao’s “The Old Philosopher” reviewed by Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
"Each poem in the collection affirms its protean self, its questions of how we name the world—particularly, gender—and its melding of love and violence, sexuality and god, politics and clothing, or play and discomfort."
Anca Cristofovici’s “Stela” reviewed by Matt Kirkpatrick
"Based on Cristofovici’s childhood in Soviet Romania ... Stela is built from fragments: compact, lyrical chapters, like glimpses of dreams, function to create an emotional and psychological space of longing.... A splintered dream of lives interrupted, rendered in electric prose."