A THOUSAND PLATEAUS He had a stiff little Heidegger one summer morn. Sipping his Nestle, he wanted to Schopenhauer and Chef Boyardee you. But you were perestroika, a fistful of…
Author: Sina
I’ve read more this year than I have in the past several years but still, nowhere near what I used to read in a given year. I understand, if I…
Who Built That? Modern Houses, Princeton Architectural Press, 2014 My three year-olds are technically way too young for this, but I bought it for them anyhow because we already look…
Like all lists, this is incomplete, even as a list of my favorite poetry things of the year. It’s incomplete because I often lend, or give books that would be…
The Scarborough by Michael Lista (Signal Editions, 2014) When Kenneth Goldsmith appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his book Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Stephen Colbert stated that…
All Good Possibles: Ken Babstock, On Malice Ken Babstock read last Tuesday evening at Book Warehouse on Main St., for the Vancouver launch of his latest collection On Malice, which…
SQ: Congratulations. Inheritance is an impressive, powerful first book. It feels quite unlike many Canadian first books in terms of craft, weight, and to some extent tone, if not concerns.…
HOT LITTLE CRICKET SONNET THAT WANTS WANTS WANTS but hasn’t, being all but sex, all filch, iambic shanked & muscle mad to batten him thigh to knee but leave…
WHAT PEOPLE LOVE TO LOVE ABOUT PRISON after Jen Hadfield what people love about prison is the radical separation what people love about separation are the handwritten letters what people…
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TOWARD AN IDEA OF CITIZENSHIP I’m trying not to think of my country as a girl drinking drinking coffee in a drizzle after her boyfriend has gotten on the train.…
A LABORIOUS WAKEFULNESS OR WAS IT A MOST UNAPOLOGETIC WHISTLING IN THE EAR I lack full, clear proof of his skin a drum. Have I always been under-sided, a quandary’s…