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Albert Goldbarth’s _ Griffin _, reviewed by Katie Eberhart
Albert GoldbarthGriffinISBN 9780979118906Essay Press, 2007Paperback, 84 pages$12.95Reviewed by Katie EberhartGriffin [...]
Chris Tonelli’s _ No Theater _, reviewed by Christopher Salerno
Chris TonelliNo TheaterBrave Men Press, 2009Chapbook. 25 pages.$9.50Reviewed by Christopher [...]
Michelle Detorie’s _ Ode to Industry _, reviewed by Juliet Cook
Michelle DetorieOde to IndustryDusie Kollektiv 3 / Playful Rectangle Press, [...]
Blake Butler’s _ Scorch Atlas _, reviewed by J.A. Tyler
Blake ButlerScorch AtlasISBN 978-0977199280Featherproof Books, 2009$14.95Reviewed by J.A. TylerI hold [...]
Alexis Orgera’s _ Illuminatrix _, reviewed by Mark Rockswold
Alexis OrgeraIlluminatrix Chapbook.Forklift, Ink., 2009$5Reviewed by Mark RockswoldIlluminatrix is Alexis [...]
Skip Fox’s _ For To _, reviewed by Megan Burns
Skip FoxFor ToISBN 1934289728BlazeVOX [books], 2008Reviewed by Megan BurnsSkip Fox’s [...]
James Sanders’ _ Goodbye Public and Private _, reviewed by Rachel Daley
James SandersGoodbye Public and PrivateISBN: 1934289973BlazeVOX Books 2008$16Reviewed by Rachel [...]
G.C. Waldrep’s _ Archicembalo _, reviewed by Gretchen E. Henderson
ArchicembaloG.C. WaldrepISBN 9781932195743Tupelo Press, 2009$16.95Reviewed by Gretchen E. Henderson“Any performance [...]
Paige Ackerson-Kiely’s _ In No One’s Land _, reviewed by Karyna McGlynn
In No One’s Land Paige Ackerson-KielyAhsahta Press, 2007ISBN 9780916272920Paperback, 75 [...]
Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life reviewed by Carina Finn
"Much in the same way that the girl on her knees getting facefucked is running the entire show, Marie applies the rules of BDSM to the author-reader relationship in what purpose did i serve in your life. You can call her a whore, sure, but that’s exactly what she wanted you to do."
Fence Books Gets Love at Vice…
... thanks to Blake Butler, who features several of Fence's [...]
Two Reviews of Kate Durbin’s Kept Women
By the end of Kept Women, Durbin successfully changes the viewing activity of reality-as-entertainment into an active reading of trauma, or post-trauma. Readers become increasingly self-aware as the speaker’s emotional detachment from the scenes feels tensely at odds with the negated inhabitants. The women’s physical bodies are acutely absent from the poems, as if the speaker is treating a fresh crime scene like a museum tour.
Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp reviewed by Joe Sacksteder
Its advice works if you’re interested in clawing your way into the lit journal world: 'Remember, you campers with less personality, it really is a numbers game – if you write enough notes, you’re gonna get a reply. Even telemarketers make a sale now and then.'
Chaps from Ricochet Editions available for review
Ricochet's entry into the chapbook scene comes by way of three titles -- Bradley Harrison's Diorama of a People, Burning; Matthew Kirkpatrick's The Exiles; and Glenn Shaheen's Unchecked Savagery --each of which exudes its own organic form.
Books received & available for review
14 books, 12 authors, 11 presses. Carrie Olivia Adams, Michael S. Begnal, James Belflower, Amina Cain, Jack Collom, T. Zachary Cotler, Peter Davis, Kate Greenstreet, Brian Henry, M. Kasper, Ethan Paquin, and Kim Rosenfield; published by Ahsahta Press, Black Scat Books, Bloof Books, Denver Quarterly, Insert Press, Instance Press, Salmon Poetry, Salt Publishing, SpringGun Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, and Verse.