One can always start afresh after having died several times . . . like re-routing whenever one is lost while using Google Maps.
Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus – Signe Gjessing
Gjessing, in many ways, flips Wittgenstein’s directive on its head, writing poetry as one might write philosophy.
Through this text, Civil has recorded time, unraveled memory, and reckoned to create a document that is both of its time and of past/future time.
Neither Weak Nor Obtuse – Jake Goldsmith
No one escapes, no one is physically invulnerable, we are all prisoners of a cruel chronicity.
The Seaplane on Final Approach – Rebecca Rukeyser
Mountains and bears and ice floes are hardly cheap lipstick and pleather jackets, but to a hormone-addled teenager, anything and everything looks like sex.
Prophetess – Baharan Baniahmadi
Slowly, she begins to sense the presence of all the world’s women in her own body, women who have been wronged by men or society in general. These voices fill her, erasing her own.
Beloved of the Dawn – Franz Fühmann
[Fühmann’s collection] taps into the depths of the human condition—the grotesque and the intimate, the proud and the petty, the mortal and immortal.
Somewhere between mathematics as melodramatic caricature and migraine-inducing combinatorial, what about a third way?
Writings on the Other Animals – Manuel Becerra
It isn’t intuitive to love the toad.
Shope’s strength is marking the marginal shifts and mechanisms of power between patient and doctor.