INT. SHARON OLDS POEM—NIGHT Sharon’s at the window, but you’re further down the page, waiting for her husband who will return now but not forever. Sharon’s legs are jelly from fucking,…
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Our Lady of Perpetual Realness and Other Stories, Cason Sharpe. Metatron Press (2017). It’s 2017, the year of the great avocado toast debacle, and Cason Sharpe’s debut chapbook of short…
The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova, Coach House Books (2017). Camilla Grudova’s debut short story collection The Doll’s Alphabet is palpably weird. A gothic pastiche of peeling wallpaper, scurrying cockroaches, and…
A Loss for Words from The Last Word (Coach House Books, 2017) by Julia Cooper Here we are in the pews of a bright, white-walled church in the opening minutes…
INTERVIEW WITH AN EMPIRE Q: Why does a Black woman like yourself write the kind of poetry you do? A: I’m not sure what you mean by “the kind of…
Afterglow (a dog memoir), Eileen Myles. Grove Press (2017). People have feelings about dogs. Lots of feelings. Their antics are one of the Internet’s enduring consolations. I spent a whole…
With The Original Face, Guillaume Morissette takes GIF art to the novel The Original Face, Guillaume Morissette. Véhicule Press (2017). “I don’t think I’ll ever make anything that’s even half as…
Civilization Makes Me Lonely, Jennifer Nelson. Ahsahta Press (2016). The first two sheets of Jennifer Nelson’s Civilization Makes Me Lonely act as a palimpsest. Translucent paper covers Ahsahta Press’ emblem,…