Birthday Girl by Sheila J. Sadr
Sadr shines in her composition of concise statements on gender, with gut-punch assertions about the essential truths of being a woman, rendered in stunning fragments.
The Sacramento of Desire – Julia Bloch
[Bloch] catalogues the responses in her body, all the while trying to find a language that is corporeal, embodied, that is, literally of the body: a sign that she is fertile.
Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede – Mike Corrao
The body of each billionaire is deteriorating and will become its own soup or ash.
I am mean to them, aren’t I?
The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here – Susanne Paola Antonetta
THE TERRIBLE UNLIKELIHOOD OF OUR BEING HERE is meant for anyone who, in Antonetta’s words, feels the need to “scratch life and make it bleed a little and know you’re here.”
Zabor, or the Psalms – Kamel Daoud
One could say that writing is a small act of rebellion against death.
At One End / Midwestern Infinity Doctrine – Ulrich Jesse K. Baer
This linguistic merging is also a thaw evoking an apparition of identity, haunted luminescence of self-in-mutation.
But my inner critic is the one who writes in the first place.
Loving art was a huge part of why I became a socialist. My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and I spent a lot of my youth really arguing for the arts.
On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt – Ann Heberlein
The priceless contribution of Heberlein’s book, for all its occasional bowdlerizing, is that it offers the requisite connective tissue for the grand and the ground-level.