Alice Notley Penguin ($18) by Christopher Luna Alice Notley’s latest collection, In the Pines, begins and ends with questions. Like her previous work, it challenges preconceived notions about poetry; Notley not only deconstructs language to push against patriarchal presumptions, but her writing deliberately blurs the line between poetry and prose, forcing one to concentrate on the […]
Hiromi Itō translated by Jeffrey Angles Action Books ($16) by Lucas de Lima and Sarah Fox Hiromi Itō has enjoyed literary acclaim in Japan since the 1980s, particularly after the publication of On TerrItōry 2 (1985) and On TerrItōry 1 (1987), both of which broke new ground in their forthright explorations of the female body, sexuality, and motherhood. Itō […]
edited by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg Saturnalia Books ($20) by Morgan Myers Anthologies tend to be read as turning points in literary history—forward-looking declarations of something just beginning or backwards-looking canonizations of something just completed. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, the editors of Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, seem to anticipate that Janus-faced quality […]
Lissa Wolsak Station Hill Press ($21.95) by Hank Lazer In Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, Emmanuel Levinas writes that “the birthplace of ontology is in the said,” and he prods us to think about what might lie before “language contracts into thought.” In Lissa Wolsak’s poetry, we live and breathe and achieve awareness in that […]
edited by Peter Cockelbergh Litteraria Pragensia (€12) by Megan Burns “There is no difference between inside and outside at the poem’s warp speed.” —Pierre Joris, Notes Toward a Nomadic Poetics Cartographies of the In-Between collates a number of essays by various writers about Pierre Joris and his life as a translator, poet, and manifestor of “Nomad […]
by Cliff Fyman Bill Kushner lives and writes in New York, a place that permeates his work and his career. A student of many great teachers, including Kenneth Koch, Lewis Warsh, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Kushner received a Poetry Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts in 1999 and again in […]
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Chip Kidd, Harvey Pekar, Martín Espada, and many more... INTERVIEWS Form and Content: An Interview with Chip Kidd Interviewed by Eric Lorberer The fact that Chip Kidd has more than one superpower turns out to be a boon for readers. REVIEWS: POETRY The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada Espada’s latest is a moving collection that […]
RAIN TAXI CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF PUBLISHING On Saturday, December 10th, Rain Taxi held a soiree in Minneapolis to celebrate ten years of Rain Taxi Review of Books. The wonderful Rogue Buddha Gallery graciously allowed Rain Taxi a space filled with clever statuary and colorful paintings in which to gather and a steady stream of […]