Reviews + Notes

Flash Review: The Strings of Walnetto Arrangements by Ben Estes

11.05.2011 Poetry Reviews
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The Strings of Walnetto Arrangements by Ben Estes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Punky is right I say it is right so it must be Right Night at the poetry house–crickets chipping in a not-quite-stein voice for all the rabbits and cymbals popping out the dampness. I low the low in the voice of [...]

Tagged as: Ben Estes, Flowers & Cream, Poetry Reviews

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Flash Review: Barn Burned, Then by Michelle Taransky

10.26.2011 Poetry Reviews

Barn Burned, Then by Michelle Taransky My rating: 5 of 5 stars I continue in awe of the way Taransky can break a line. The poems are as worked as work can be, but broken thank goodness, broken like champs. Can’t imagine the lines any differently. But I don’t really think the crux of this [...]

Tagged as: Michelle Taransky, Omnidawn, Poetry Reviews

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Flash Review: Born Two by Allison Cobb

10.16.2011 Poetry Reviews

Born Two by Allison Cobb My rating: 5 of 5 stars A romp(er) in the sense that everything is worn, frayed, last legs etc. That the language is newish and known, a sound fulcrum, & um (sic) becoming. No being the master in these poems, no meaning no to those who wish to ‘ah’ at [...]

Tagged as: Allison Cobb, Chax Press, Poetry Reviews

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Flash Review of NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS by Michelle Taransky

10.09.2011 Poetry Reviews

NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS by Michelle Taransky My rating: 5 of 5 stars It was raining raining raining when I got the mail and opened it and read this book (thank goodness) instead of doing nothing. And what a beautiful book of poems printed on opaque vellum and what a treat to [...]

Tagged as: Brave Men Press, Michelle Taransky, Poetry Reviews

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09.02.2011 Assorted Lectures
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A ten-week temporary workspace for the exploration of generative practices in contemporary experimental writing.  The goal of the space is two-fold: 1. To read, discuss and debate contemporary approaches to experimental writing. 2. To produce new work in innovative ways that engage with contemporary strategies of appropriation, erasure, recycling, remixing, framing, stealing, copying, pasting, recovery, documentation, [...]

Tagged as: H-town

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Flash review: The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

03.22.2011 Fiction Reviews

The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was my first real Wharton (besides Ethan Frome and Bunner Sisters, two relatively short works). Gotta say I was impressed. It’s so nice to follow early Woolf (Night & Day) with a minor Wharton. They work in different, almost oppositional, ways. [...]

Tagged as: Edith Wharton, Fiction Reviews

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Flash Review: Night And Day by Virginia Woolf

03.10.2011 Fiction Reviews

Night And Day by Virginia Woolf My rating: 3 of 5 stars Sort of a snoozer as Woolf goes. I can’t say if anyone but Mrs. Hilbery got my attention. The book was just so labored and overthought and… I don’t know… Sort of useless in it’s accumulation of activities and thoughts. Just never seemed [...]

Tagged as: Fiction Reviews, Virginia Woolf

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Flash Review: Pause Button by Kevin Davies

02.25.2011 Poetry Reviews

Pause Button by Kevin Davies My rating: 5 of 5 stars The first thing that hit me about this book was how masterful Davies is at adding/subtracting text. While there’s plenty of books out there with “erasures” (which usually inject air into a heavier text), this book has “deletions.” Like the text was shot thru. [...]

Tagged as: Kevin Davies, Poetry Reviews, Ubu Editions

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Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

02.22.2011 Fiction Reviews

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Swooped in for the reread and longed and thinned (sighed) as to howandwhy the arrangement of figurines so pleases me. In order to form a more perfect union and secure the blessings of liberty. Times four I have read pride and prejudice and [...]

Tagged as: English Literature, Fiction Reviews, Jane Austen

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Review: The Trial by Franz Kafka

02.17.2011 Fiction Reviews

The Trial by Franz Kafka My rating: 5 of 5 stars I picked up this book a few years ago and put it down because I got too Kafka-ed by the mazery. I just couldn’t put it together, couldn’t understand why sentences were written the way that that were. Thank goodness I gave it a [...]

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