The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn, 128 pp, $14.95 1. First Impressions This book is both less…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carole Maso’s AUREOLE
I’d like to state my thanks to the Big Other crew for letting me think aloud and formulate ideas about…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue…
Break Every Rule, Part 1
Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule is a quiet, elegant book of essays. Every sentence here is a gem. Remember that…