Goat Song – Konstantin Vaginov
Exploiting the experience of others, Whistlin turns living people into hollow characters, artificial objects in both senses of the word.
The Möbius Book – Catherine Lacey
Lacey writes how Meg White drums: layered simplicity, phrase by primal phrase.
A series of odes to material culture and social structures, Debt Ritual is a project through which the writer is working out questions increasingly fundamental to the vocation of writing.
What makes a place utopic? Or rather what is it that makes a place received in people’s imaginations as utopic?
Río Muerto – Ricardo Silva Romero
This choice—to speak or remain silent—is the hinge upon which Silva Romero’s RÍO MUERTO turns
That feeling of disorientation might be my favorite thing about poetry. I think poems can bring about new possibilities by skirting the edges of sense, or they can expand our capacity for sense-making.
When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier
In this collection, light is less revealing than it is blinding, distortive and receding.
The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital – Leopoldina Fortunati
In addition to being rigorous, Fortunati’s text is ruthless, stripping away every plank of Marx’s platform to show the underside of labor, the women’s work that wasn’t worth his noting.
Ambiguity in poetry is famously difficult to translate.