All the King’s Horses, Michèle Bernstein. Trans. John Kelsey. Semiotext(e), 2008. The Night, Michèle Bernstein. Trans. Clodagh Kinsella, Ed. by Everyone Agrees. Book Works, 2013. After the Night, Everyone Agrees. Book…
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Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy (WCS): Kinanaskomitinanan (thank-you) for considering these questions on your three poetry books, A Really Good Girl (1996), green girl dreams Mountains (2001), that tongued belonging (2007),…
L’ AVVENTURA Softly, he insisted to himself, the peculiar conditions love requires enforce their perimeter. Some quinine slap-take, some shouts across backyards. At some point we find ourselves but that…
Bough Down, Karen Green. Siglio, 2013. by Elisa Gabbert In comedy, a “callback” is a joke that makes reference to an earlier joke, to “build audience rapport.” In Bough Down, a…
“The Hacienda must be built.”— Ivan Chtcheglov[1] All furrowed foreheads are evidentiary. We can’t go three hours without encountering embodiments expressing obstacles in their backs. We move within repulsing and…
It’s not in the river but in the ocean this time, where I wake up and find I’m too far out to get back. It’s bright day and cloudless; the…
BEAT NATION: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture MACM, October 17 2013 – January 5 2014 By Chantale Potié I see the colour red and think of a beating heart,…
THESE THINGS the only witnesses to life are the things in it; the only listening occurs in the objects, gifts or found, which answer with being marked by living. for…
I was standing in bright sunlight waiting, once again, to shake a famous hand. Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was coming to Guyana, going to land that day, and…
He would have consecrated more than a hundred tender and ironic pages to it, and would have embellished them with complex and scrupulous dialogue; he may well have added…
Multitudes, Margaret Christakos. Coach House Books, 2013. By Bronwyn Haslam let’s push words into coming. gnash words into coming, into body. shove grammar onto parts. load coming into each. is…
The Book of Hours, Marianne Boruch. Copper Canyon, 2011 by Benjamin Landry The Book of Hours is a deeply metaphysical arrangement, the primary concern of which is the interrogation of…