After Lunch with Frank O’Hara, Craig Cotter (Chelsea Station Editions 2014) In 1959, Frank O’Hara published “Personism: A Manifesto”, a tongue-in-cheek essay that, for all its cynicism towards critical prose…
Category: Essays & Fragments
Sonnets, Bernadette Mayer. Tender Buttons Press, 2014 Grace Notes for Bernadette * I might sing forever with never a goal nor solution * Full of luxury, grace notes, prosperousness…
Crossing Over: Temporalities of Erasure and Recuperation in the Contemporary Long Poem, For Example, in Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! by Margaret Christakos …
ON GENEROSITY, CORRESPONDENCE, AND EMBRACING EXILE I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. —Octavio Paz Why shouldn’t I drift off like a…
CROSSING OVER: TEMPORALITIES OF ERASURE AND RECUPERATION IN THE CONTEMPORARY LONG POEM, FOR EXAMPLE, IN ERIN MOURE’S THE UNMEMNTIOABLE AND M NOURBESE PHILIP’S ZONG! by Margaret Christakos One is adrift,…
In 2007, under the direction of Jérôme Garcin, Seuil published an anthology titled New Mythologies. The anthology’s title was a nod to Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, which had been published fifty…
“There is No Scene Here” Looking at Emma’s Dilemma (Henry Hills, 2012) by Cornelia Barber To look is to be curious, to be interested, to lower…
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…
Contemporaries and Snobs. Laura Riding. Edited by Laura Heffernan and Jane Malcolm. University of Alabama Press, 2014 “In theory, poetry has officially passed” (40). So proclaims Laura Riding in her…
This essay was originally written as part of Laynie Browne’s project to curate essays on the “poet’s novel” in mid-2013.A The Transformation, Juliana Spahr. Atelos, 2007 Thinking thought usually amounts…
Introduction: [Listen] Between the wheels of a subway train and its tracks or off the crags of stones or even the space between your dog’s toes, between a curtain and its…
Belladonna’s new translation of Theory, A Sunday comes to us just in time to respond to a resurgence of pop feminism—on This is What a Feminist Looks Like t-shirts, at…