Welcome to On Beauty, a series of interviews with poets about their relationships to beauty. For an introduction to the project, click here. This month Amanda Jernigan shares her thoughts on…
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Onion Man, Kathryn Mockler. Tightrope Books, 2011. by Tanis MacDonald The individual poems of Kathryn Mockler’s Onion Man, which hover between a novel in verse and a long poem sequence, appear on…
Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu, derek beaulieu, ed. Kit Dobson. WLUP, 2013. by Eric Schmaltz With the release of Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of…
Film: Upstream Color Director: Shane Carruth Writer: Shane Carruth Cast: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Country: USA Year: 2013 Upstream Color is the latest sci-fi offering by Primer director…
“Matter in the Symbolic Universe”: An Interview with Laura Jaramillo AP: Before we delve proper into your wonderful debut collection of poetry, Material Girl (Subpress 2012), could you perhaps introduce your…
fur(l) parachute, Shannon Maguire. BookThug, 2013. by Eric Schmaltz Following up on her shortlist nomination for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Writing, Shannon Maguire–proving herself to be a…
Monkey Ranch, Julie Bruck. Brick Books, 2012. Omens in the Year of the Ox, Steven Price. Brick Books, 2012. by Myna Wallin Monkey Ranch is Julie Bruck’s third collection of poetry…
The Polymers, Adam Dickinson. Anansi, 2013. by Rachael Wyatt This book attracted me, initially, with its use of polymer plastics as a conceit for drawing a collection together. Even before…
How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn. Arsenal Pulp, 2013. by Heather Cromarty TO WRITE Given the task of writing a lecture on women and fiction in 1928, Virginia Woolf,…
Dean Young’s Word Triplets We could say that there is a narrative to these three words: brick, blood-drop, red feather, which entails the passage from inert material to mortal flesh…
LH: What do you think the purpose of a review is? If you also write about books on a blog (as opposed to an official publication), why? What does blogging…
And the Birds Rained Down, Jocelyne Saucier. Transl. Rhonda Mullins, Coach House Books, 2012. by Adrienne Celt As I began organizing my thoughts for this piece, it became clear to me…