Baby in the Night – Kevin Sampsell
Dad is so close, especially on the clear nights, that he seems touchable
The Home the Drowned – Elin Anna Labba
Since their words weren’t enough, the people of the village set up a protest camp
The personal appetite is political
Minerva – Keila Vall de la Ville
Vall de la Ville writes about Venezuela’s decline beautifully and honestly, just as she writes about Minerva’s changing identity as an immigrant
Concentric Macroscope – Kelly Krumrie
Geometry creates a concentric circle, but language splinters.
Why aren’t more reviews of experimental literature commensurately experimental in form?
The Disappearing Act – Maria Stepanova
Hundreds of eyes are looking at her, seeing not the novelist but some other unknown person
Lola the Interpreter – Lyn Hejinian
In Hejinian’s syntax of personhood within and around community, the self fits in only precariously among others.
Within each coupledom, clothing represents a tug of war for power
whitewards – Katarína Kucbelová
Who wants to simply disappear, no longer an individual but only an undefined part of some larger, homogenous body?