For Ravn, the pregnant body becomes a microcosmic environment tensely defending itself against the violent onslaught of the global conditions of capitalism.
What does it mean to translate architectural or structural principles into poetic form? And how might asking these two art forms to engage with each other transform them?
Dayswork – Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
DAYSWORK is suspicious of the way we talk about authors, authorship, and authorial collaboration: Whose labor is recognized, and whose is elided?
In Our Times, a Space, In Our Struggles, a Future: A Vision for the Worlds to Come
Ours is a world on fire, flooded, starved, wounded, violent, and oppressive and at the same time heroic, inventive, resilient, adaptive, beautiful, and endlessly imaginative.
The Men Can’t Be Saved – Ben Purkert
Just like the professions of advertising and commerce, perhaps even preaching, these men distort reality, create false versions of themselves to convince an audience they are functioning successfully.
A candlelit tub is like a time machine—darkness can be a form of time travel, I find. All those modern trappings get shed away.
[Virginia] never imagined that her ideal lover could be a monster, especially not of her own creation.
Deceit, Gallardo implies here in her stunningly economical prose, does not originate in the individual act of hiding a pregnancy, but in the collective act of condemning a woman to gestate one in secret dread.
Vagabondage, thrill-seeking, and risk underwrite the best of these poems—and knowledge of Rees’s adventures only makes the best of his work resonate more strongly.
Idlewild – James Frankie Thomas
Teenagers . . . Are they interesting, or just irritating?