Destruction of Man – Abraham Smith
DESTRUCTION OF MAN is among other things a savage, tender bestiary, a teeming universe in which the human figures as only one among countless symbiotic vital actors.
It is all so recent, so almost-up-to-date.
Love in the Chthulucene, and in the shattered landscapes that this era presents, is forever incomplete and unsatisfied. It occurs in a shifting landscape, through the fissures of which previously buried uncertainties are constantly arising.
A Marxist Education – Wayne Au
The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.
If a governess frolics and there is no elderly gentleman to witness it . . . ?
Ma Bo’le’s Second Life – Xiao Hong
The reader will have to decide if it is ok to do the wrong thing for the right reason or the right thing for the wrong reason or the right thing for the right reason or the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
I submit that playing along once in a while with games like Olafsson’s, games about the game of fiction, can be a useful reminder of how fiction works on us.
GeNtry!fication: Or, the Scene of the Crime – Chaun Webster
GeNtry!fication isn’t just a book of poetry that dances around a question. It is an experimental essay that delves deep and also inducts its readers into the process by asking difficult questions that the author himself is seeking.
how do I net thee – Shira Dentz
This collection illuminates how, like language, memory is slippery, and how our inability to capture real life is a spectacular failure that gives rise to poetry.
The progress to be made, then, is to be sentenced to the book, go through the door, dive into the black hole.