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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…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
How potent cheap music can be
Over the last five or six years I’ve become obsessed with post-war British history. It started as part of an…
From Canada, with Despair
Pasha Malla, a Canadian writer, has put together some thoughts on the current state of how we speak about writing…
Shark Porn
Stephen Burt has a recent review, “Poems about Poems,” from the Nov/Dec issue of the Boston Review that begins, If…
Mr Turner
I had a theory about Joseph Mallord William Turner. At an exhibition of his work at the Tate some years…
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…
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You know who sells a lot of soap? Procter & Gamble. Do you think P&G soap is “the best”? or…