I go down the 58,022 names, half-expecting to find my own in letters like smoke. –from “Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa…
Trees Are Alphabets
Below is information about a fantastic-sounding exhibition that will open on the 26th at The Bronx Museum of the Arts.…
Bernar Venet and the History of Conceptual Poetry
In writing about Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (2006), edited by Craig Dworkin, Marjorie Perloff remarks…
On Nathaniel Mackey’s Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015)
My review-essay on Nathaniel Mackey entitled “Root Work” appeared in the Boston Review yesterday. This is from the very beginning: Nathaniel…
Jane Wong’s Impossible Map
This is from the good people at Fact-Simile:…
Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry
I’m very happy about the recent publication of “Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry,” a folio…
Shark Porn
Stephen Burt has a recent review, “Poems about Poems,” from the Nov/Dec issue of the Boston Review that begins, If…
from Slavoj Žižek’s Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (Verso, 2014)
…the big Other is not some kind of substantial Master who secretly pulls the strings but a stumbling malfunctioning machinery.
Jim Goar’s The Dustbowl (Shearsman, 2014)
The Dustbowl Jim Goar Shearsman 2014, 86 pp., $16, ISBN: 978-1-84861-321-8 Jim Goar’s third full-length collection The Dustbowl is compelling…
Poetry, E-Books, and John Ashbery
There’s an article in today’s New York Times called “Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly.” In it, Alexandra Alter reports…