Planetary Noise, Erín Moure. Wesleyan University Press (2017). THE PROXIMITY EFFECT OF ERÍN MOURE Proximity effect is what happens when a microphone is held too close to a sound…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
The Purpose Pitch, Kathryn Mockler. Mansfield Press (2015). Kathryn Mockler’s chaotic third collection of poetry, The Purpose Pitch, irradiates the deep strangeness of our modern world. The collection embraces various…
As if dreams were a language that includes the social surface / of the body, ‘signal fire’ in the desert as the song says, the / body’s lamp glowing, armpits…
TO THE EXTENT A TRADITION CAN BE SAID TO BE DEVELOPED; IT IS MORE ACCURATE TO SAY IT CAN BE CLOTHED IN DIFFERENT FORMS As three persons in one, I…
and now famine, friend I of course, no living is continuous, we take what grows within we cast them out as though to bloodlet the life of its lesser sorrows;…
Six poems from Kathryn Mockler. Please enjoy a review of The Purpose Pitch also featured in this issue. An interview with the poet coming shortly. from The Purpose Pitch SEALED CONTAINERS —So how are we going…
FOOD Night is when you look into other people’s kitchens. Down in a first floor apartment lightly set into the frozen ground someone holds a crescent clove of garlic to…
IF If decadent, we were destructive If decaying, a nuisance If we were multitudes with wants and ligaments, we were feral If we undressed, it was to tease If underground,…
SYBILL ELEGIES the city was a bad boyfriend when I was his girl he called me late to ask who I was with when I was his girl he talked…
CATTLE OF THE SUN my ex once lived in a house later dubbed the “chattel ranch” it wasn’t a ranch when he lived there though his…
MOMENTUM EXCHANGE TETHER (A DANCE SCORE) I didn’t see the sky tonight and didn’t think about its legislators. At some point I didn’t need a better view I needed…
FACTS ABOUT XANTHIPPE The facts about Xanthippe are scant: her name, her marriage. Her husband’s words are only reported by others, so, really, we can’t be sure of much. Plato’s…