Dusie chaps are always exciting to receive. They come in spurts, sometimes swelling the mailbox, and then nothing is heard…
Creative Engagement with Joyelle McSweeney’s Percussion Grenade (Fence, 2012)
Precision, procession, possession—Percussion Grenade. Not only a boom but a particular-sounding boom. A percussion instrument is an instrument that must…
Creative Engagement with Olivia Cronk’s Skinhorse (Action Books, 2012)
In Olivia Cronk’s new full length book Skinhorse, we are brought into a strange array of the animal, the grotesque.…
Creative Engagement with Julian Talamantez Brolaski’s Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012)
“I am a love poet, and dedicate all my verses to Love, that god among goddesses, goddess among gods, that…
Creative Engagement with Rodrigo Toscano’s Deck Of Deeds (Counterpath, 2012)
Whoa! Honestly, Rodrigo Toscano’s new book Deck Of Deeds feels to me like the “re-particulated image of his half-decapitated neck…
Creative Engagement with Arielle Guy’s Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire
Is the opening and closing of legs like “remembering the blink”? Arielle Guy’s recently released book Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s…
Creative Engagement with Jared Hayes’ The Dead Love: Hands and More Hands Together (Black Radish Books, 2012)
Jared Hayes’ new full length book The Dead Love: Hands and More Hands Together states itself as “an experiment in…
A Proprioceptive Description (Naropa’s Violence and Community Symposium)
As proprioception does not come from a singular or specific organ within the body, but from a sort of strange…
Interview Between j/j hastain and Danielle Vogel re Narrative and Nest (Lulu/Abecedarian Gallery 2012)
1. I am feeling very excited to be engaging with you re this little interview in support of and co-investigation…
Creative Engagement with Maria Damon’s meshwards (Dusie, 2011)
meshwards. meshwards? Forward? Onward? To mesh towards? Maria Damon’s Dusie chap meshwards is a grouping of cross-stitch pieces with…