Review

Herlands – Keridwen N. Luis

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The impulse of withdrawal can sharpen continuously to a fine point.

Socialist Realism – Trisha Low

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Maybe this is, more than anything else, about a series of starting points. We have not started fighting yet.

Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham – ed. Laura Kuhn

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It is impossible to separate the work of the artists from the shared life of two men in love.

Lite Year – Tess Brown-Lavoie

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Though deeply embodied and rooted in the land, Lite Year does not offer itself up as willingly as we have grown to expect from poetic farmers.

Positions of the Sun — Lyn Hejinian

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Does Language poetry have a public? If not, and for want of one, whose interests does it serve instead?

Experiments in Joy – Gabrielle Civil

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EXPERIMENTS IN JOY holds space for so many other individuals, and for an inclusive community, because this is a part of Civil’s ethics, but also because she’s often making work in collaboration.

Excess—The Factory – Leslie Kaplan

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Leslie Kaplan’s EXCESS—THE FACTORY has nine circles, but you don’t get to the bottom of it.

The Storyteller Essays – Walter Benjamin

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Stories rely on their iterability, extant within a system of circulation, mobile and memorable.

Last of Her Name – Mimi Lok

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Lok’s stories negotiate and transgress the limits of the nearly impossible.

Eden-Brazil – Moacyr Scliar

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In these new climate circumstances, old stories will not suffice when it comes to stirring us to action.