Poetry Reviews

Review: Under the Sun by Rachel Levitsky

01.28.2011 Poetry Reviews

Under the Sun by Rachel Levitsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars Take a story and foreshorten it replace the names and re-lace the conversation more awkwardly so that thinking is a fact/axis and apologize say sorry. Pivot on “this” and “which.” Pivot any spinning thing desperately this swiftness and silence things happen in. Indeed [...]

Tagged as: Futurepoem, Poetry Reviews, Rachel Levitsky

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Reviews: Eclat Sites 1-10 by Caroline Bergvall

01.27.2011 Poetry Reviews
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Eclat Sites 1-10 by Caroline Bergvall My rating: 5 of 5 stars Who wants to make something with this language that has to be made in a box. Made box that opens that closes. you can tape it and break the tape to open the box made. you made an o pening with a pen [...]

Tagged as: Caroline Bergvall, Conceptual Poetry, Poetry Reviews, Ubu Editions

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Review: Precise Intrigues by Mary Angeline

01.27.2011 Poetry Reviews

Precise Intrigues by Mary Angeline My rating: 4 of 5 stars A pleasant read where was I in the arrangement of articles “a” and “the” post-postness. Attuned silver forks many tines to her ear airs. The like facts that Angeline has preppy positions, darling danglers, academy obfuscation and legal heretofor. No go on the space [...]

Tagged as: Mary Angeline, Poetry Reviews, Post Apollo Press

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Review: Protective Immediacy by Rod Smith

01.26.2011 Poetry Reviews

Protective Immediacy by Rod Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars It is elastic and eeking and as anti as it is american ramshackle orchestral backflips. But extraordinarily hard to quote back so woe is you who have not read rod. View all my reviews

Tagged as: Poetry Reviews, Rod Smith, Segue

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Review: Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling by Sarah Riggs

01.26.2011 Poetry Reviews

Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling by Sarah Riggs My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really get this book. So much so I’m teetering on uncanniness, so there am I. Chain… is a re-re-re work. It puts forth multiple iterations of a primary text. The primary text is like a [...]

Tagged as: Poetry Reviews, Reality Street Editions, Sarah Riggs

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Review: In Medias Res: Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee

01.23.2011 Poetry Reviews

In Medias Res: Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am usually not in the Saraband camp, but I bought this in NY last year because something calmed me about the layout – little pieces of things alphabetized like a dictionary. And it was rather calming. A one-sitting kind of [...]

Tagged as: Karen An-hwei Lee, Poetry Reviews, Sarabande Books

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AND/OR Issue #1

11.16.2010 Poetry Reviews
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Check out the first issue of  and/or, a PDF (Issue) and print journal “for creative experimental writing and/or innovative graphic art.” Mike Russo [editor] paid me a huge compliment by 1. reading my work online and then 2. asking me if he could take a piece. Thanks Mike! It’s no small thing to find out [...]

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Review: In the Function of External Circumstances by Edwin Torres

10.17.2010 Poetry Reviews

In the Function of External Circumstances by Edwin Torres My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am talking hitting and missing all over the place. The first two sections were throw-aways but I’m glad I didn’t give up b/c “Underneath a Southern Cross” is where it’s at – go there/read that – it is much [...]

Tagged as: Edwin Torres, Nightboat, Poetry Reviews

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Review: Streets Enough to Welcome Snow by Rosmarie Waldrop

01.09.2010 Poetry Reviews

Streets Enough to Welcome Snow by Rosmarie Waldrop My rating: 5 of 5 stars My five stars are based on an average rating of the sections. Mostly the book was a good solid 4-star read–you know: smart, classic-rosmarie goodness. But. One section, “Providence in Winter,” received one of my famous, late-night, thousand-star downpours. Reading it [...]

Tagged as: Poetry Reviews, Rosmarie Waldrop, Station Hill

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Review: Humours Run Deep by Tom Bridwell

01.08.2010 Poetry Reviews

Humours Run Deep by Tom Bridwell My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of those crazy could-have-only-found-it-in-houston books that I’m so glad I bought. This book runs fast across the surface–as folksy as abstract as technical as he wants to be. I tinkled (perfectly literary response) with its many rolling-over inflect/ions. If you can find [...]

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