Last month, I talked with Kristina Marie Darling over email about her new book Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011)—topics ranged from the Romantic fragment to mourning rituals to collaboration to erasure. Darling is also the author of the poetry collection Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Ragdale [...]
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The Satisfaction of Incompleteness: A Conversation with Kristina Marie Darling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Compendium, Cow Heavy Books, erasure, Freud, Gold Wake Press, gothic novel, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Joanna Ruocco, Joseph Cornell, Julia Kristeva, Kim Gek Lin Short, Kristina Marie Darling, Max Avi Kaplan, Max Ernst, roland barthes, Romantic fragment, Sabrina Orah Mark, Surrealism, Travis Macdonald, Victorian mourning on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Jello Horse, All Fall Down, All the Day’s Sad Stories, AM/PM, Amelia Gray, Ander Monson, Andrew Zornoza, Anne Michaels, Baby Leg, Brian Evenson, Can Xue, Changing, Chelsea Martin, David Shields, Dear Everybody, e.s.p., Easter Rabbit, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Eugene Lim, Eugene Marten, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever, Five Spice Street, Fog & Car, Fred Marchant, Fugue State, Gert Jonke, Greg Gerke, How Some People Like Their Eggs, Italo Calvino, Jackie Corley, jamie iredell, Jeremy Davies, Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, John Dermot Woods, John Haskell, Joseph Young, Justin Sirois, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Life Goes to the Movies, Light Boxes, Lily Hoang, Mary Caponegro, Matt Bell, Matthew Simmons, Michael Kimball, Michael Leong, Michal Ajvaz, Midnight Picnic, MLKNG SCKLS, Nick Antosca, Norman Lock, On the Winding Stair, One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, Peter Selgin, places & things, Prose. Poem. A Novel., Reality Hunger, Robert Lopez, Rose Alley, Sean Lovelace, Shadowplay, Shane Jones, Stephanie Johnson, The Bridge of the Golden Horn, The Collectors, The Complete Collection of People, The Complete Cosmicomics, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, The Failure Six, The Looking House, The Mothering Coven, The Other City, The Suburban Swindle, The System of Vienna, The Way the Family Got Away, The Winter Vault, There’s Something Wrong with Sven, Tina May Hall, Vanishing Point, Waste, Where I Stay on December 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty. At the risk of being redundant, I’ve put together a list of the books I thought were this year’s best. I’ve also included links to the ones I reviewed. But before that, I should mention [...]
Birkensnake 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A World Called the Blazing World, Birkensnake, Blake Butler, Caren Gussoff, Charlie Brown’s Diaries: Excerpts, Christopher Boucher, Correspondence, Danielle Dutton, Dogfight, Evelyn Hampton, Five Simple Sentence Forms, From now on all I’ll talk about is light, Joanna Ruocco, Joe Hill, Joyelle McSweeney, Knot, Margaret Cavendish, Matt Briggs, Matthew Pendleton, Michael Stewart, Miles Klee, Pop Art, Rhoads Stevens, Sag: A Saga, Sean Lovelace, Someday on Planar Surface, Strange Animal: Three Stories, The Children’s Factory, Tumor Flats on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I met Joanna Ruocco at her release gathering for The Mothering Coven. After her reading, she gave me a copy of the latest issue of Birkensnake. She’s one of the editors there and she told me that she had bound the book herself. It’s a lovely object that was both blowtorch-singed, and sprayed, I think, [...]
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