POETRY
Four Poems
Mike Young
11.30.11
The fingernails of Mike Young's poetry scratch up layers of language & history coded in the flesh, and raise the welt of the recent past. Grit right down there in the cuticle. Four new prose poems from the editor of NOÖ Journal.
My shovel // Sparkles like words: Anthony McCann Dig and Dialogue
Andrew James Weatherhead
11.10.11
Anthony McCann is pushing the folds of language back like he is walking through the Origin of the World and it is a woodland. "It's almost as if I were saying these things / To someone––to you––or not even to you"––or to Andrew James Weatherhead as he delves into I Heart Your Fate, McCann's latest from Wave Books. Let them show you this: these mineral veins of vivid word.
The Smaller Part, or, on Invincibility: A Review of Heather Christle's The Trees The Trees
Laura Carter
08.07.11
Laura Carter reads Heather Christle's fragmented, fraught (and funny) poetry from The Trees The Trees through a Lacanian looking glass replete with languaged Mummys and "presages of the real and its vicissitudes," a curious vantage when you take into accont some of Christle's characters have "gone to live at Space Camp permanently... while "we have to envy them eating freeze-dried ice cream every minute." Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere...But hey it works! We also get an intimate interview with the author here, bonzai!
The Fragments of the Frame: On Alan Gilbert's Late in the Antenna Fields
Laura Carter
05.27.11
Laura Carter reviews Alan Gilbert's new book of poetry, Late In The Antenna Fields, which she finds to be an "architecture of loss and longing," tinged with "a tension of the cool." But there "are laws to cool, and Gilbert names them, and they reside in signals and machines, but loosely. He takes off the layers of childhood intensity with a laid-back commitment to air and what it has melted from..." Poetry on Poetry...
I Have a Fake Body Part. Guess What It Is.
Various
11.28.10
New work from seven poets spanning several of our nation's major metropolitan areas - Chelsea Martin, Kevin Sampsell, Aneesa Davenport, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Claire Donato, Jeff T. Johnson and Michael Thomsen. Poetry isn't dead, it's just been feigning an injury to get worker's comp benefits and is about to go to town with a pocketful of cash. Sweet illustrations from artist Rachel Pollak.