A Spring of Poetry: Capsule Reviews
Eight capsule reviews of poetry and prose works from Ugly Duckling Presse, above/ground press, Subpress Editions, Tupelo Press, and Baobab Press
Carmelina: Figures & Virgil Kills: Stories – Ronaldo V. Wilson
Neither doubles nor doppelgangers of one another, Wilson and Carmelina, son and mother, make us rethink the question of lineage in new and unpredictable ways.
Three Ugly Duckling Presse Chapbooks
Alejandro Albarrán Polanco and Agustín Guambo display a radical political sensibility refracted through shards of shattered subjectivities, while Enriqueta Lunez’s fierce feminist lyricism offers an unsentimental portrayal of generational conflict among indigenous women.
F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry – ed. Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Ainsley Morse
Collectively, the poets in F LETTER would doubtlessly endorse Rymbu’s all too familiar battle cry: “To make revolution with the vagina. / To make freedom with oneself.”