Gary Lutz is easily one of my favorite writers. I’ve read each of his collections at least twice, and I…
John Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann: A Word-Hoard
I tend to be skeptical whenever somebody recommends a writer to me, especially, for some reason, when it’s a poet…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William Gass, 2011
I would imagine that a certain amount of anxiety accompanies any attempt to write about William Gass and his work,…
Travels with My Aunt: A Look at Satire and Outsiderness
I’m in the Dominican Republic, sitting on the porch of the cabin we’ve owned for six years now. We dream…
Wallace Stevens: Poems Selected by John Burnside: A Word-Hoard
I’m in the middle of meandering, moving from place to place, preparing to move to Providence, so it’s fitting that…
E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: A Word-Hoard
Once I’d encountered the word “hive-spangled” (a hyphenated compound that I’d imagine Hart Crane would have enjoyed using if not…
Toward a “Bibliography of Important Experimental Texts”
Recently, on Facebook, Lance Olsen mentioned that he’s in the midst of “compiling a bibliography of 100 important experimental texts…
A Review of Susan Daitch’s Storytown
Storytown, Susan Daitch’s first collection, is a singular achievement, displaying a virtuosic command of technique in service to a kind…
A Review of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk
Ostensibly a history of the ways humanity has, across history, housed the mortal remains of its dearly, or otherwise, departed,…