Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
Sentences and Fragments: Sentences I Like
“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He…
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…
Contemporary Verse Novels and Anne Carson’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION, and C. A. Conrad’s THE BOOK OF FRANK
I’ve been reading and comparing Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution, and C. A. Conrad’s The…
Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION
I can’t thank Mathias Svalina enough for introducing me to Selah Saterstrom. Her first novel, The Pink Institution (Coffee House…