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 Nick Antosca, Midnight Picnic, Shane Jones, Matt Bell, Mary Caponegro, Tina May Hall, Lily Hoang, Joanna Howard, John Dermot Woods, Brian Evenson, Light Boxes, places & things, jamie iredell, Joanna Ruocco, Sean Lovelace, Dear Everybody, MLKNG SCKLS, Justin Sirois, Joseph Young, Easter Rabbit, Michael Kimball, Gert Jonke, Jackie Corley, The Suburban Swindle, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, Matthew Simmons, Greg Gerke, The System of Vienna, Baby Leg, The Failure Six, David Shields, Fugue State, Eugene Lim, On the Winding Stair, Rose Alley, A Jello Horse, Ander Monson, Vanishing Point, All Fall Down, Fog & Car, Eugene Marten, Waste, The Way the Family Got Away, Reality Hunger, John Haskell, Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault, The Complete Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino, All the Day’s Sad Stories, AM/PM, Amelia Gray, The Bridge of the Golden Horn, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Changing, The Collectors, The Complete Collection of People, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever, Chelsea Martin, e.s.p., Michael Leong, Five Spice Street, Can Xue, How Some People Like Their Eggs, Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez, Life Goes to the Movies, Peter Selgin, The Looking House, Fred Marchant, The Mothering Coven, The Other City, Michal Ajvaz, One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, Stephanie Johnson, Prose. Poem. A Novel., Jeremy Davies, Shadowplay, Norman Lock, There’s Something Wrong with Sven, Where I Stay, Andrew Zornoza 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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