by J.G. McClure | Oct 10, 2014
Michael Bazzett’s first full-length collection, You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions), shows a poet fluent in many registers. Though they range from irony to frightening sincerity, these poems are unified by their ability to make the familiar strange and...
by Lauren Hilger | Sep 3, 2014
[…]the ex-movie- plex, each raindrop a prism, its spectrum a trick of machine (“Track A Errormirror”)The life cycle of technology, it seems, begins with an idea of the future. This is followed shortly by obsolescence. What was once new becomes an embarrassing emblem,...
by Caitlin Maling | Aug 19, 2014
Keats says of poetry “that it should be a friend to man,” and in the warmth and wisdom of Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s fourteenth collection The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog is a true friend. Or rather, in each of the central narrators, three friends: the old woman...
by Kay Cosgrove | Aug 11, 2014
We did not fear the father as the barber who stood like a general in a white jacket with a green visor cap . . . // . . . We did not fear our father until he stooped in the dark. (“We Did Not Fear the Father”) As an entity, We Did Not Fear the Father might be summed...
by Marcus Pactor | May 26, 2014
Amina Cain’s collection, Creature (Dorothy Project, 2013), owes great debts to the writing of Marguerite Duras and Clarice Lispector. Cain samples bits of their prose, and elsewhere mimics and tweaks their styles. Consider how Cain takes the stripped-down...
by Matthew Lippman | May 18, 2014
Michelle Chan Brown’s Double Agent won the Kore Press First Book Prize, selected by Bhanu Kapil, in 2011. I received the book a few months book and was sad it took so long to get to me and so happy it finally did. “Apollo 11” is a poem that broke me apart into...
