The Obituary, Gail Scott. Coach House Books, 2010. by Martin Schauss Midway through the ludicrously lucid précis on the back of the folding front-cover of my edition of Gail Scott’s…
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NOTES TO MYSELF (15 Briefs) “You’re an asshole” —Henry James 1. You talk on the phone while driving. I think you are just a fucking asshole. 2. So you two…
the soul heals to saturate literature the first falsehood of literature is that our species with names incorporates chance as the first line of fact the soul likewise only…
LIVES OF THE POETS Found delirious on the streets of Baltimore. Died days later. Died in shipwreck at the age of 40. Typhoid fever. 44. Orphaned at 14, dead from…
Twin Conscience On June 11, 1981, Issei Sagawa, a 32-year-old student studying Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Academy in Paris, invited a fellow student, Renée Hartevelt, over to dinner at…
TWO POEMS BY MARGARET AVISON APRIL Dark like a handful of cool gray silk. Clocks strike the hour. Out in the clear-gleaming sky a robin’s song, silence unravelling. The trees…
GM: As you know, concurrent with the success of your novels this last decade (my personal favourite being Galore), I’ve been goading you at parties and readings about when we’d…
A LETTER TO HAMMERTOWN 1. The orange chestnut canopy has shredded into a discarded hamper of wet umber, umber-orange, lacy amber, blood-orange & bloody amber rags through which tires carve…
Emmonsail’s Heath in Winter BY JOHN CLARE I love to see the old heath’s withered brake Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling, While the old heron from the…
CIGAR? TOSS IT IN A CAN. IT IS SO TRAGIC For all intensive purposes, the fire distinguishers are pigments of the imagination. Unparalyzed in the history of this great…
How are we to read Red Doc as a sequel to Autobiography of Red? – Concetta Principe May 9, 2013 In an essay on Autobiography of Red, in Open Letter…
Chapter Three: O in CO “Last night again, I dreamed that I was dead,” O thinks, “or am I dead and dreaming now? I dreamt that I was Kathy Acker,…