Reviews

A Field on Fire – ed. Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg

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Academic modes of production are shockingly ill-suited to a crisis, and certainly ill-suited to a crisis of this scale.

I Used to Be Charming – Eve Babitz

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Babitz has not lost her caustic, self-deprecating, and observational humor. But does it still work? Or, rather, is it what we need?

I Can’t Talk about the Trees without the Blood – Tiana Clark

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Figurative language reaches towards the physical embodiment of feeling, animating words on the page.

Love Drones – Noam Dorr

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LOVE DRONES makes us reconsider what we take for granted and reveals new networks of communication — geopolitical, emotional, and aesthetic.

White Flights – Jess Row

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“Write what you know,” rather than urging you to burnish the surface of the “personal,” demands that you admit how much knowledge of this society’s complexity and injustice — how much personal knowledge — you really do have.

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?