Bad Faith Denial of Agency Pollution of Agency The Double Standard of Content False Categorizing Isolation Anomalousness Lack of Models Response Aesthetics I have been gathering found poems such…
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While reading Pain, Porn and Complicity my mind kept returning to that bizarre Stephen Marche interview of Megan Fox in Esquire. It was mysteriously bad. It was doesn’t-make-sense bad. At…
Propagation Laura Elrick Kenningeditions.com, 2012 For better or for worse, there’s been a great deal of handwringing over stolen language – appropriation, collage, the overheard, the copied, the received. But…
Review by Dana Drori “What then is reality? Diamonds?” So wonders Madelon Thorpe in “Ear Ring”, the opening story in BookThug’s curated reissue of Hilda Doolittle’s (H.D) uncirculated prose, Narthex…
Review by Sarah Bernstein As I read and reread Croak by Jenny Sampirisi, endeavoring to find a point of entry, I thought at last: yes, that’s it. Thresholds. The bodies…
“HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?” The women of the playboy mansion are not home. Not a single blonde lounges by the pool, or on the California King sized bed. It…
Anne Carson’s new “re/verse-novel” re-spins time, grief, thinking, psychoanalysis and the poem by Margaret Christakos Spin One: Time Anne Carson is a writer whose compulsion to understand time is bottomless.…
“Tell me where we can go / to be alone and have some kind of communion” Aisha Sasha John asks in her debut poetry collection. The answer, which appears…
Review by Alan Reed First, I must confess to not being entirely impartial when it comes to Eric Chevillard. He is already among my favourite writers, he has been for…
Classical satire has two distinct streams. The first, following Horace, is gentle and urbane, with a soft, self-effacing mien. The second, derived from Juvenal, is nasty, vicious, and angry. Both…
Reviewed by Fenn Stewart not for lack of wolves or inside of wolves or besides the point of wolves Liz Howard’s Skullambient makes tracks across the landscapes of anti-Ontari-ari-ario;…
Review by Aimee Wall It’s such a cliché to speak of someone having been “ahead of their time.” And a little frustrating. We can only really ever say that in…