What Could This Possibly Be the End Of?: On Kate Greenstreet’s The End of Something
Laura Carter04.03.18
Kate Greenstreet’s latest deepens her riveting, multi-voiced exploration of the impermanence of life and love. Laura Carter reviews.
“From a reflection in both paintings”: Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future as the Fragments of Narrative
Laura Carter07.22.14
Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future passes over and over through sleeping and waking states to weave a sense of identity among our mass collective history. Laura Carter reviews.
A Review of Joshua Corey’s Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy
Laura Carter02.26.14
An early look at Joshua Corey’s An American Elegy, a strategic exploration of the terrain between mother and detective. Laura Carter reviews.
We Cannot All Be Rocks In Heaven: Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese
Laura Carter03.15.13
Laura Carter delves into “this shifting image of myself in which I see my past, my present, my future, all indivisibly reflected” of Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese, the first collaboration between Octopus Books and Tin House Press.
“Go with great care”
Laura Carter02.12.13
Laura Carter leads us through the forest of Kate Greenstreet’s “experimental memoir” Young Tambling.
Interrogating the Real: A Review of One
Laura Carter12.13.12
Laura Carter works her way closer to the body of One in the shared Meate Dream of Blake Butler, Vanessa Place, and assemblagist Christopher Higgs.
Updated: Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser
Laura Carter11.19.12
From world darkness to The Purloined Letter, Laura Carter leads us through Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser.
Elegy for Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Laura Carter04.26.12
The resonant hall of memory is a lot like the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Polk Street, San Francisco. Adrienne Rich held court in both, filling her audience with the direct, fluid power of her words. Laura Carter examines her legacy, grasps at the delta, to find that the poet “long ago moved on / deeper into the heart of the matter.” Rest in peace.
A magic trapeze: Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton
Laura Carter02.06.12
Laura Carter explores Trinie Dalton’s short story collection Baby Geisha and finds Flarf, a muddy horse, and what may be the opposite of feminine writing. It’s snapping turtle prose. It’s tree-cutting season.
Lay Mirrors in the Street / Bring Heaven Down to Earth: On Jen Benka’s Pinko
Laura Carter11.28.11
All the leaves fall off the trees in one night (as they do) and all the flowers come back red in the springtime. Laura Carter explores the loveliness in revolution of Jen Benka’s Pinko.
