Castle Rock’s Henry Deaver represents a major change I began reading Stephen King, at the age of 10. On a whim, I picked up his novel, IT during a lib…
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The Power of Transgressing the Confines: A Review of Matchbook Vol. 4 from Small Fires Press
Matchbook Vol. 4 (Small Fires Press, 2017) Guest edited by Jessica Elsaesser Especially for poets, communicating ideas on the page often becomes the w…
As Hard-Edged and Challenging as a Bone: Ken Foster on Eileen Myles’ AFTERGLOW (A DOG MEMOIR)
**Editor’s note: RM220 presents Eileen Myles at 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 16, at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue).** “You’ll get ano…
Let me into your grief: A review of Cassie Pruyn’s LENA
Lena Cassie Pruyn Texas Tech University Press, 2017 [Editor’s note: Cassie Pruyn will read with Ben Aleshire at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue) at…
Possibility as an exercise of analysis: A review of Spree MacDonald’s MILKSOP CODICIL
Milksop Codicil Spree MacDonald Slapering Hol Press, 2017 “Milksop,” meaning cowardly or indecisive person; and “codicil,” a legal addendum which in s…
Parsing the Relationship Between Sensibility and Memory: A review of Paul Killebrew’s TO LITERALLY YOU
To Literally You Paul Killebrew Canarium Books, 2017 Space, Henri Lefebvre writes in The Production of Space, is “a whole set of errors, a complex of …
Confronting the surrounding, unbearable silence: A review of Lauren Levin’s The Braid
In “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, Gayatri Spivak critiques Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus; she writes: “theories of ideology cannot afford to overlo…
The animating grief is unfixable: A review of Elizabeth Gross’ Dear Escape Artist
Dear Escape Artist Elizabeth Gross Press Street Press/Antenna, 2016 “Figures take shape,” Roland Barthes writes in A Lover’s Discourse, “insofar as w…
Bound by interrogative physics: A review of Stacey Balkun’s Lost City Museum
Lost City Museum Stacey Balkun ELJ Publications, 2016 Divided into two parts, Stacey Balkun’s Lost City Museum incorporates this division into what b…
“X will mean many things” – A Review of Lara Naughton’s The Jaguar Man
The Jaguar Man Lara Naughton Central Recovery Press, 2016 [Editor’s note: Lara Naughton will read with Justin Nobel at Antenna (3718 St. Claude …