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 Lauren Hilger | Mar 28, 2014
Emilia Phillips’s first collection of poems, Signaletics, masterfully builds an atmosphere like that of an ancient laboratory where the tools are out and books still open. She references texts such as Al-Jazari’s medieval Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious...
by Lauren Hilger | Mar 20, 2014
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, the fifth full-length collection from Jeffrey McDaniel, takes its title from a Marina Tsvetaeva line: “I shall lead you, as a guest form another country, / to the Chapel of Inadvertent Joy.” Like Tsetaeva, McDaniel connects to the...
by Lauren Hilger | Jan 31, 2014
I’m no spark plug, but I know my arms bleed strength, and atrophy with every pleasure. Forget pleasure. Let me hang unlit light-strings in the trees, give me a plastic chair to sit myself down in, and let the roof deck lift me up in sundown’s sun, give me the only...
by Lauren Hilger | Jan 16, 2014
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. If I wrote that story now— radioactive to the end of time— people, I swear, your eyes would fall out, you couldn’t peel the gloves...
